trench
/ˈtɹɛnt͡ʃ/ verb C2- To invade, especially with regard to the rights or the exclusive authority of another; to encroach.
- To excavate an elongated pit for protection of soldiers and or equipment, usually perpendicular to the line of sight toward the enemy.
- To excavate an elongated and often narrow pit.
- To have direction; to aim or tend.
- To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, etc.
- To cut furrows or ditches in. · to trench land for the purpose of draining it
- To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next. · to trench a garden for certain crops
He/she/it trenches · Past trenched · Past participle trenched · -ing form trenching
Verb forms
- Base form
- trench
- He/she/it
- trenches
- Past
- trenched
- Past participle
- trenched
- -ing form
- trenching
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Look at the great trench in the opposite hill.
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