TRENCH
\tɹˈɛnt͡ʃ], \tɹˈɛntʃ], \t_ɹ_ˈɛ_n_tʃ]\
Definitions of TRENCH
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor
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a ditch dug as a fortification having a parapet of the excavated earth
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any long ditch cut in the ground
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dig a trench or trenches; "The National Guardsmen were sent out to trench"
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set, plant, or bury in a trench; "trench the fallen soldiers"; "trench the vegetables"
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cut or carve deeply into; "letters trenched into the stone"
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fortify by surrounding with trenches; "He trenched his military camp"
By Princeton University
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a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor
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a ditch dug as a fortification having a parapet of the excavated earth
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any long ditch cut in the ground
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dig a trench or trenches; "The National Guardsmen were sent out to trench"
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set, plant, or bury in a trench; "trench the fallen soldiers"; "trench the vegetables"
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cut or carve deeply into; "letters trenched into the stone"
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fortify by surrounding with trenches; "He trenched his military camp"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, or the like.
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To fortify by cutting a ditch, and raising a rampart or breastwork with the earth thrown out of the ditch; to intrench.
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To cut furrows or ditches in; as, to trench land for the purpose of draining it.
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To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next; as, to trench a garden for certain crops.
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To encroach; to intrench.
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To have direction; to aim or tend.
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A long, narrow cut in the earth; a ditch; as, a trench for draining land.
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An alley; a narrow path or walk cut through woods, shrubbery, or the like.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, or the like.
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To fortify by cutting a ditch, and raising a rampart or breastwork with the earth thrown out of the ditch; to intrench.
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To cut furrows or ditches in; as, to trench land for the purpose of draining it.
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To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next; as, to trench a garden for certain crops.
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To encroach; to intrench.
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To have direction; to aim or tend.
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A long, narrow cut in the earth; a ditch; as, a trench for draining land.
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An alley; a narrow path or walk cut through woods, shrubbery, or the like.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To encroach.
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To cut or dig a ditch: to dig deeply with the spade or plough.
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A long narrow cut in the earth: (fort.) an excavation to interrupt the approach of an enemy: the excavated approaches made by besiegers.
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. A long, narrow cut in the earth; a ditch; –a deep ditch, or the wall or breastwork formed of the earth thrown out of the ditch to cover troops in their approaches to a besieged town; also, a similar work to defend the approaches to a camp against the attacking party.
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