What does "trench" mean?

A long, narrow ditch or hole dug in the ground.

What is a synonym for "trench"?

Common synonyms include: impinge, abri, abysm, abyss, abyssal zone, adit.

//tɹɛnt͡ʃ// name, noun, verb, slang

name, noun, verb, slang ·Very common ·Middle school level

Noun

1
A long, narrow ditch or hole dug in the ground.
"The trenches for installing the underground cables were dug with a trencher."
2
a ditch dug as a fortification having a parapet of the excavated earth wordnet
3
A narrow excavation as used in warfare, as a cover for besieging or emplaced forces.
"The soldiers in the trenches rely on logistical support."
4
any long ditch cut in the ground wordnet
5
A pit, usually rectangular with smooth walls and floor, excavated during an archaeological investigation.

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a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor wordnet
7
A trench coat. informal
"I was the first person in my high school to wear a trench and fedora constantly, and Ben was one of the first to wear a black trench."

Verb

1
To invade, especially with regard to the rights or the exclusive authority of another; to encroach. usually
"Shee is the Judge, Thou Executioner, Or if thou needs would'st trench upon her power, Thou mightst have yet enjoy'd thy crueltie, With some more thrift, and more varietie."
2
dig a trench or trenches wordnet
3
To excavate an elongated pit for protection of soldiers and or equipment, usually perpendicular to the line of sight toward the enemy.
"No more shall trenching war channel her fields."
4
cut a trench in, as for drainage wordnet
5
To excavate an elongated and often narrow pit.

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set, plant, or bury in a trench wordnet
7
To have direction; to aim or tend.
"the reason and consequence thereof may trench to point of estate"
8
cut or carve deeply into wordnet
9
To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, etc.
"The wide wound that the boar had trenched / In his soft flank."
10
fortify by surrounding with trenches wordnet
11
To cut furrows or ditches in.
"to trench land for the purpose of draining it"
12
impinge or infringe upon wordnet
13
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"

Proper Noun

1
A suburb of Telford, Telford and Wrekin borough, Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ6912). countable, uncountable
2
A habitational surname. countable, uncountable