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Trench

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A deep furrow or ditch.

n. A long narrow ditch embanked with its own soil and used for concealment and protection in warfare.

n. A long, steep-sided valley on the ocean floor.

v. To cut a trench in.

v. To fortify with trenches.

v. To place in a trench.

v. To make a cut in; carve.

verb-intransitive. To dig trenches or a trench.

verb-intransitive. To verge or encroach. Often used with on or upon.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A long, narrow ditch or hole dug in the ground, especially in warfare.

n. A pit, usually rectangular with smooth walls and floor, excavated during an archaeological investigation.

n. A trench coat.

v. To invade, especially with regard to the rights or the exclusive authority of another.

v. To excavate an elongated pit for protection of soldiers and or equipment, usually perpendicular to the line of sight toward the enemy.

v. To excavate an elongated and often narrow pit.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, or the like.

v. To fortify by cutting a ditch, and raising a rampart or breastwork with the earth thrown out of the ditch; to intrench.

v. To cut furrows or ditches in.

v. To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next.

verb-intransitive. To encroach; to intrench.

verb-intransitive. To have direction; to aim or tend.

n. A long, narrow cut in the earth; a ditch.

n. An alley; a narrow path or walk cut through woods, shrubbery, or the like.

n. An excavation made during a siege, for the purpose of covering the troops as they advance toward the besieged place. The term includes the parallels and the approaches.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To cut, as a notch, hole, mark, etc.; form by cutting; carve; incise.

To cut into; form a ditch, trench, or other linear depression in: as, to trench the ground round a camp or a fort.

In agriculture, to furrow deeply, especially with the spade; dig deeply and turn over thoroughly by means of a succession of contiguous trenches.

In cabinet-making and the like, to work with a long continuous groove, as a rail which is to be fitted upon the heads of a series of bars or balusters.

To cut; slash.

Specifically, to form a trench or trenches; proceed by or as if by means of trenches.

To encroach; infringe; obtrude as if by cutting into something: used of conduct, expression, or the like, usually with on or upon: as, to trench upon another's rights. Also intrench.

To reach out; extend; tend.

Synonyms Encroach upon, Infringe, etc. See trespass.

n. A narrow excavation of considerable length cut into the earth; a deep furrow or ditch.

n. A lane or road cut through shrubbery or woods.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. cut a trench in, as for drainage

n. a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor

v. cut or carve deeply into

v. impinge or infringe upon

v. dig a trench or trenches

v. fortify by surrounding with trenches

n. a ditch dug as a fortification having a parapet of the excavated earth

v. set, plant, or bury in a trench

n. any long ditch cut in the ground

Word Usage

"It's usually a variety of steak served with frozen vegetables and what they describe as trench fried."

Equivalent

trench plough

Antonym

dike

Verb Form

trenched trenches trenching

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

excavate hollow dig cut take advantage trespass dig out fortify fort position

Cross Reference

to scour the trenches to mount the trenches tail of the trenches to open the trenches returns of a trench

Form

entrench in the trenches

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

intrench encroach ditch alley fosse furrow line cutting parallel zigzag

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

Bench French Hench bench clench drench entrench french hench quench

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

ditch tunnel pit cave canal ridge fort camp building ravine