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trench
1[ trench ]
noun
- Fortification. a long, narrow excavation in the ground, the earth from which is thrown up in front to serve as a shelter from enemy fire or attack.
- trenches, a system of such excavations, with their embankments, etc.
- a deep furrow, ditch, or cut.
- Oceanography. a long, steep-sided, narrow depression in the ocean floor.
verb (used with object)
- to surround or fortify with trenches; entrench.
- to cut a trench in.
- to set or place in a trench.
- to form (a furrow, ditch, etc.) by cutting into or through something.
- to make a cut in; cut into; carve.
verb (used without object)
- to dig a trench.
verb phrase
- to encroach or infringe on.
- to come close to; verge on:
His remarks were trenching on poor taste.
Trench
2[ trench ]
noun
- Richard Chen·e·vix [shen, -, uh, -vee], 1807–86, English clergyman and scholar, born in Ireland.
trench
/ ³Ù°ùÉ›²Ô³Ùʃ /
noun
- a deep ditch or furrow
- a ditch dug as a fortification, having a parapet of the excavated earth
verb
- to make a trench in (a place)
- tr to fortify with a trench or trenches
- to slash or be slashed
- intr; foll by on or upon to encroach or verge
trench
/ ³Ù°ùÄ•²Ô³¦³ó /
- A long, steep-sided valley on the ocean floor. Trenches form when one tectonic plate slides beneath another plate at a subduction zone. The Marianas Trench, located in the western Pacific east of the Philippines, is the deepest known trench (10,924 m or 35,831 ft) and the deepest area in the ocean.
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ²õ³Ü²út°ù±ð²Ô³¦³ó noun
- ³Ü²Ô·³Ù°ù±ð²Ô³¦³ó±ð»å adjective
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of trench1
Example Sentences
“And I don’t appreciate them as much today as I do on the darkest days. That’s when they showed up in the trenches with me and said, ‘Hey, hang in there.
Using Diia, some argue, would allow people to vote quickly, cheaply and safely without having to travel to a polling booth overseas or in the trenches.
They think they’re fighting for freedom, for some mythical golden age, but in reality they’re just digging trenches for their own destruction.
During the offseason, construction crews gutted the bowels of Dodger Stadium, digging deep trenches down the left and right field foul lines to build new, expanded clubhouse areas.
Mr Rajawat stressed the problem was so bad some developers were having to buy electricity supply "from many, many miles away and dig trenches and fit wiring" because they cannot connect to local supplies.
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