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trench

English

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

Spanish

  1. 🔊 zanjear to trench
  2. 🔊 trinchera trench, ditch

Similar words

deep oceanic abyss ditch impinge encroach entrench bassalia abri abysm abyss abyssal zone adit air-raid shelter approach approach trench aqueduct arroyo barge in bathyal zone benthos bomb shelter bombproof bore bottom