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trench
English
- 🔊 a ditch dug as a fortification having a parapet of the excavated earth
- 🔊 any long ditch cut in the ground
- 🔊 a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor
- 🔊 dig a trench or trenches“The National Guardsmen were sent out to trench”
- 🔊 cut a trench in, as for drainage“ditch the land to drain it”
- 🔊 set, plant, or bury in a trench“trench the fallen soldiers”
- 🔊 cut or carve deeply into“letters trenched into the stone”
- 🔊 fortify by surrounding with trenches“He trenched his military camp”
- 🔊 impinge or infringe upon“This impinges on my rights as an individual”
Spanish
- 🔊 zanjear to trench
- 🔊 trinchera trench, ditch