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ditch

English

  1. 🔊 a long narrow excavation in the earth
  2. 🔊 any small natural waterway
  3. 🔊 crash or crash-land
    “ditch a car”
  4. 🔊 make an emergency landing on water
  5. 🔊 forsake
    “ditch a lover”
  6. 🔊 cut a trench in, as for drainage
    “ditch the land to drain it”
  7. 🔊 sever all ties with, usually unceremoniously or irresponsibly
    “The company dumped him after many years of service”
  8. 🔊 throw away
    “Chuck these old notes”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 cuneta ditch
  2. 🔊 cárcava ditch
  3. 🔊 chamba ditch, trench
  4. 🔊 foso ditch, trench
  5. 🔊 empantanar to ditch, leave aside, leave unfinished

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