trench

trench is a 6-letter English word with 18 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, or the like. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 12 · 18 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, or the like.
2. transitive verb. To fortify by cutting a ditch, and raising a rampart or breastwork with the earth thrown out of the ditch; to intrench.
3. transitive verb. To cut furrows or ditches in; as, to trench land for the purpose of draining it.
4. transitive verb. 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.
5. intransitive verb. To encroach; to intrench.
6. intransitive verb. To have direction; to aim or tend.
7. transitive verb. A long, narrow cut in the earth; a ditch; as, a trench for draining land.
8. transitive verb. An alley; a narrow path or walk cut through woods, shrubbery, or the like.
9. transitive verb. 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.
10. noun. a ditch dug as a fortification having a parapet of the excavated earth
11. noun. any long ditch cut in the ground
12. noun. a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor

    Synonyms: deep

13. verb. dig a trench or trenches

    "The National Guardsmen were sent out to trench"

14. verb. cut a trench in, as for drainage

    "ditch the land to drain it"

    "trench the fields"

    Synonyms: ditch

15. verb. set, plant, or bury in a trench

    "trench the fallen soldiers"

    "trench the vegetables"

16. verb. cut or carve deeply into

    "letters trenched into the stone"

17. verb. fortify by surrounding with trenches

    "He trenched his military camp"

18. verb. impinge or infringe upon

    "This impinges on my rights as an individual"

    "This matter entrenches on other domains"

    Synonyms: encroach, entrench, impinge

Synonyms

deep, ditch, encroach, entrench, impinge

Common word forms

trenched, trencher, trenches, trenchful, trenching

Words from these letters

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