trench
Nouns
- (n) a ditch dug as a fortification having a parapet of the excavated earth
- (n) a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor oceanic abyss, deep,
- (n) any long ditch cut in the ground
Verbs
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(v) impinge or infringe upon
- This impinges on my rights as an individual
- This matter entrenches on other domains
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(v) fortify by surrounding with trenches
- He trenched his military camp
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(v) cut or carve deeply into
- letters trenched into the stone
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(v) set, plant, or bury in a trench
- trench the fallen soldiers
- trench the vegetables
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(v) cut a trench in, as for drainage
- ditch the land to drain it
- trench the fields
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(v) dig a trench or trenches
- The National Guardsmen were sent out to trench