Trench

Definition:

(v. t.) To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, or the like.
(v. t.) To fortify by cutting a ditch, and raising a rampart or breastwork with the earth thrown out of the ditch; to intrench.
(v. t.) To cut furrows or ditches in; as, to trench land for the purpose of draining it.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. i.) To encroach; to intrench.
(v. i.) To have direction; to aim or tend.
(v. t.) A long, narrow cut in the earth; a ditch; as, a trench for draining land.
(v. t.) An alley; a narrow path or walk cut through woods, shrubbery, or the like.
(v. t.) 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.

Compare trench with other words:

french vs. trench

bunker vs. trench

trench vs. trunch

tench vs. trench

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swale vs. trench

channel vs. trench

berm vs. trench

trench vs. underdrain

moat vs. trench

drench vs. trench

administrator vs. trench

pothole vs. trench

groove vs. trench

canal vs. trench

ravine vs. trench

retrench vs. trench

boyau vs. trench

cunette vs. trench

shoring vs. trench

trench vs. trencher

basin vs. trench

coffer vs. trench

greave vs. trench

furrow vs. trench

latrine vs. trench

trench vs. trough

gully vs. trench

trench vs. trenchant

salient vs. trench

grip vs. trench

chase vs. trench

perpendicular vs. trench

elongate vs. trench

encroach vs. trench

authority vs. trench

exclusive vs. trench

right vs. trench

invade vs. trench

entrench vs. trench

excavate vs. trench

rectangular vs. trench

trench vs. warfare

ditch vs. trench

hole vs. trench

line vs. trench