Ditch

//dɪt͡ʃ//

Synonyms for "ditch" (283 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (57)

Strong matches (85)

Related words (141)

gape gash gate get around get away get away from get out of get quit of get rid of get shut of give away goffer gorge gouge gravity dam groin groove gulch gulf gully

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Verb(9 words)

jettison lose pitch play truant shed shift toss toss out trench

Related word relations

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11 relation types

More general

14 entries

abandon crash crash land desert desolate dig excavate excavation forsake get rid of hollow remove waste waterway

Antonyms

1 entries

mound

Synonyms

8 entries

abandon chuck discard dump jettison lose shed trench

Related terms

4 entries

The Ditch fosse moat rhubarb

derived

33 entries

Black Ditch Ditch Witch Ditcher Ditchfield Quidditch The Ditch across the ditch bar ditch dead as ditch-water die in the last ditch ding-dong ditch ditch day ditch jewel ditch out ditch stonecrop ditch weed

Showing 16 of 33 words.

etymologically related_to

3 entries

deche deech dike

form of

1 entries

deech

has context

3 entries

air travel australia new zealand

is a

2 entries

excavation waterway

manner of

3 entries

abandon crash crash land

related to

31 entries

abandon airplane attend canal class crash land crevasse dip discard drainage dug fosse ground gully hole in ground

Showing 16 of 31 words.

Translations

216 translations across 86 languages.

Albanian

1 entries

hendek noun (trench)

Ancient Greek

2 entries

αὐλάκιον noun (trench)
τάφρος noun (trench)

Arabic

4 entries

أُخْدُود noun (trench)
خندق noun (trench)
خَنْدَق noun (trench)
قَنَاة noun (trench)

Aragonese

1 entries

franxe noun (trench)

Armenian

2 entries

խրամ noun (trench)
փոս noun (trench)

Aromanian

3 entries

avlachi noun (trench)
fusati noun (trench)
hãndac noun (trench)

Assamese

2 entries

খাৱৈ noun (trench)
গাঁত noun (trench)

Avar

1 entries

хандакъ noun (trench)

Azerbaijani

1 entries

xəndək noun (trench)

Belarusian

3 entries

кана́ва noun (trench)
роў noun (trench)
траншэ́я noun (trench)

Bulgarian

4 entries

кана́вка noun (trench)
ров noun (trench)
транше́я noun (trench)
изхвърлям verb (to abandon)

Burmese

1 entries

မြောင်း noun (trench)

Catalan

4 entries

rasa noun (trench)
sèquia noun (trench)
abandonar verb (to abandon)
anar al safrà verb (to play hookey)

Central Kurdish

2 entries

خەندەق noun (trench)
خەندەک noun (trench)

Chinese Mandarin

3 entries

水溝 /水沟 noun (trench)
渠 noun (trench)
溝渠 /沟渠 noun (trench)

Church Slavic

1 entries

ровъ noun (trench)

Czech

1 entries

příkop noun (trench)

Danish

2 entries

grav noun (trench)
rende noun (trench)

Dutch

3 entries

greppel noun (trench)
sloot noun (trench)
zich ontdoen van verb (to abandon)

Esperanto

2 entries

fluejo noun (trench)
forlasi verb (to abandon)

Estonian

1 entries

kraav noun (trench)

Finnish

4 entries

kanava noun (trench)
oja noun (trench)
hylätä verb (to abandon)
lintsata verb (to play hookey)

French

4 entries

fossé noun (trench)
rigole noun (trench)
tranchée noun (trench)
abandonner verb (to abandon)

Friulian

1 entries

fuesse noun (trench)

Galician

3 entries

gabia noun (trench)
rego noun (trench)
suco noun (trench)

Georgian

2 entries

გუბი noun (trench)
თხრილი noun (trench)

German

4 entries

Graben noun (trench)
Schanze noun (trench)
entledigen verb (to abandon)
notwassern verb (to crash-land on the sea)

Gothic

1 entries

𐌲𐍂𐌰𐌱𐌰 noun (trench)

Greek

3 entries

αυλάκι noun (trench)
τάφρος noun (trench)
χαντάκι noun (trench)

Gujarati

1 entries

ખાડો noun (trench)

Hebrew

2 entries

חֲפִיר noun (trench)
תְּעָלָה noun (trench)

Hindi

3 entries

खाई noun (trench)
गड्ढा noun (trench)
नाली noun (trench)

Hungarian

2 entries

sáncárok noun (trench)
árok noun (trench)

Icelandic

4 entries

díki noun (trench)
gröf noun (trench)
gröftur noun (trench)
skurður noun (trench)

Indonesian

1 entries

parit noun (trench)

Ingrian

2 entries

kanava noun (trench)
oja noun (trench)

Irish

1 entries

díog noun (trench)

Italian

4 entries

affossamento noun (trench)
canale noun (trench)
canale di scarico noun (trench)
canalone noun (trench)

Japanese

1 entries

側溝 noun (trench)

Javanese

1 entries

kalèn noun (trench)

Khmer

1 entries

ប្រឡាយ noun (trench)

Kikuyu

1 entries

mũkaro noun (trench)

Korean

1 entries

도랑 noun (trench)

Kumyk

3 entries

канав noun (trench)
татавул noun (trench)
ханав noun (trench)

Lao

2 entries

ຄູ noun (trench)
ຕະຄອງ noun (trench)

Latin

4 entries

canālis noun (trench)
fossa noun (trench)
scrobis noun (trench)
ēlix noun (trench)

Latvian

1 entries

grāvis noun (trench)

Lithuanian

1 entries

griovys noun (trench)

Luxembourgish

1 entries

Gruef noun (trench)

Macedonian

2 entries

ендек noun (trench)
ров noun (trench)

Māori

1 entries

waikeri noun (trench)

Nepali

1 entries

खाई noun (trench)

Northern Kurdish

4 entries

cihok noun (trench)
co noun (trench)
xendek noun (trench)
xendeq noun (trench)

Norwegian

1 entries

skulke verb (to play hookey)

Norwegian Bokmål

1 entries

grøft noun (trench)

Old East Slavic

1 entries

ровъ noun (trench)

Ottoman Turkish

3 entries

آرق noun (trench)
جدول noun (trench)
خندق noun (trench)

Persian

2 entries

فرگن noun (trench)
گودال noun (trench)

Plautdietsch

1 entries

Growen noun (trench)

Polish

1 entries

rów noun (trench)

Portuguese

4 entries

fosso noun (trench)
trincheira noun (trench)
vala noun (trench)
cabular aula verb (to play hookey)

Romanian

1 entries

șanț noun (trench)

Russian

4 entries

кана́ва noun (trench)
кюве́т noun (trench)
ров noun (trench)
транше́я noun (trench)

Scots

1 entries

sheuch noun (trench)

Scottish Gaelic

2 entries

clais noun (trench)
dìg noun (trench)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries

járak noun (trench)
rȍv noun (trench)
ро̏в noun (trench)
ја́рак noun (trench)

Slovak

4 entries

jarok noun (trench)
kanál noun (trench)
priekopa noun (trench)
opustiť verb (to abandon)

Slovene

2 entries

grapa noun (trench)
jarek noun (trench)

Southern Altai

1 entries

ондук noun (trench)

Spanish

4 entries

acequia noun (trench)
cuneta noun (trench)
foso noun (trench)
surco noun (trench)

Swahili

1 entries

handaki noun (trench)

Swedish

4 entries

dike noun (trench)
dika verb (to dig ditches)
lämna verb (to abandon)
skolka verb (to play hookey)

Tabasaran

1 entries

хандакӏ noun (trench)

Tagalog

1 entries

sangka noun (trench)

Tajik

1 entries

хандақ noun (trench)

Tarifit

1 entries

tarya noun (trench)

Telugu

1 entries

అగడ్త noun (trench)

Thai

2 entries

คู noun (trench)
คูน้ำ noun (trench)

Tibetan

1 entries

ས་ཤུར noun (trench)

Turkish

1 entries

hendek noun (trench)

Ukrainian

3 entries

кана́ва noun (trench)
рів noun (trench)
транше́я noun (trench)

Uzbek

1 entries

xandaq noun (trench)

Vietnamese

3 entries

hào noun (trench)
mương noun (trench)
rãnh noun (trench)

Volapük

1 entries

söp noun (trench)

Welsh

1 entries

ffos noun (trench)

Zazaki

1 entries

hendeg noun (trench)

Sample sentences

23 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

I am afraid to jump over the ditch.

Source: tatoeba (19174)

Jeff and Mia are making a last ditch effort to avoid a divorce.

Source: tatoeba (53690)

The stout man leaped over the shallow ditch and stumbled.

Source: tatoeba (275008)

If we don't make a last ditch stand at winning that contract, we may very well go under.

Source: tatoeba (279498)

Showing 4 of 23 available sentences.

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