trench

Definitions

1. 1transitive verb

   To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, or the like.

2. 2transitive verb

   To fortify by cutting a ditch, and raising a rampart or breastwork with the earth thrown out of the ditch; to intrench.

3. 3transitive verb

   To cut furrows or ditches in; as, to trench land for the purpose of draining it.

4. 4transitive 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. 5intransitive verb

   To encroach; to intrench.

6. 6intransitive verb

   To have direction; to aim or tend.

7. 7transitive verb

   A long, narrow cut in the earth; a ditch; as, a trench for draining land.

8. 8transitive verb

   An alley; a narrow path or walk cut through woods, shrubbery, or the like.

9. 9transitive 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. 10noun

    a ditch dug as a fortification having a parapet of the excavated earth

11. 11noun

    any long ditch cut in the ground

12. 12noun

    a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor

    Synonyms

    deep
13. 13verb

    dig a trench or trenches

    "The National Guardsmen were sent out to trench"

14. 14verb

    cut a trench in, as for drainage

    "ditch the land to drain it"

    "trench the fields"

    Synonyms

    ditch
15. 15verb

    set, plant, or bury in a trench

    "trench the fallen soldiers"

    "trench the vegetables"

16. 16verb

    cut or carve deeply into

    "letters trenched into the stone"

17. 17verb

    fortify by surrounding with trenches

    "He trenched his military camp"

18. 18verb

    impinge or infringe upon

    "This impinges on my rights as an individual"

    "This matter entrenches on other domains"

    Synonyms

    encroachentrenchimpinge