Trench definition
A long narrow ditch embanked with its own soil and used for concealment and protection in warfare.
noun
A deep furrow or ditch.
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A long, steep-sided valley on the ocean floor.
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To dig a trench or trenches.
verb
To verge or border. Often used with on or upon .
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To verge or border (on); come close.
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A long, narrow ditch dug by soldiers for cover and concealment, with the removed earth heaped up in front.
noun
To cut, cut into, cut off, etc.; slice, gash, etc.
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To infringe (on or upon another's land, rights, time, etc.)
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A long, steep-sided valley on the ocean floor. Trenches form when one tectonic plate slides beneath another plate at a subduction zone. The Marianas Trench, located in the western Pacific east of the Philippines, is the deepest known trench (10,924 m or 35,831 ft) and the deepest area in the ocean.
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The definition of a trench is a long, narrow ditch sometimes dug by troops during wartime to hide from enemies.
A long narrow ditch dug in World War I to protect troops from being seen by the enemy is an example of a trench.
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Trench means to dig a long and narrow ditch.
When you dig a long, narrow ditch to place a pipe, this is an example of a time when you trench.
verb
To surround or fortify with trenches; entrench.
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To cut a deep furrow or furrows in.
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To dig a ditch or ditches in.
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noun
(archaeology) A pit, usually rectangular with smooth walls and floor, excavated during an archaeological investigation.
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(informal) A trench coat.
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(military, infantry) To excavate an elongated pit for protection of soldiers and or equipment, usually perpendicular to the line of sight toward the enemy.
verb
(archaeology) To excavate an elongated and often narrow pit.
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To have direction; to aim or tend.
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To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, etc.
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To cut furrows or ditches in.
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.
To trench a garden for certain crops.
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To dig or make a trench or trenches in (land or an area, for example).
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To place in a trench.
Trench a pipeline.
verb
To encroach. Often used with on or upon .
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To dig a ditch or ditches, as for fortification.
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A deep furrow in the ground, ocean floor, etc.
noun
the trenches
- a system of trenches dug as fortifications, as in WWI
- a situation characterized by the heavy or physical work of any struggle or enterprise
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Idioms and Phrasal Verbs
the trenches
Origin of trench
- Middle English trenche from Old French from trenchier to cut perhaps from Vulgar Latin trincāre variant of Latin truncāre from truncus trunk terə-2 in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- From Old French trenche.
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