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Trench

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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.

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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.

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verb (used without object)

10.

to dig a trench.

Verb phrase

11.

trench on/upon,

to encroach or infringe on.

to come close to; verge on: His remarks were trenching on poor taste.

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English trenche path made by cutting < Old French: act of cutting, a cut, derivative of trenchier to cut < Vulgar Latin *trincāre, for Latin truncāre to lop; see truncate

Related forms

sub·trench, noun

un·trenched, adjective

Example Sentences

Last week, one of the editors at the magazine asked me where she could find a great trench coat for spring.

Other villagers are eyeing a neighbouring farm, now protected against occupation by a trench and a permanent police guard.

The trench was about half finished, and each day the snake moved farther up the mountain.

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Last week, one of the editors at the magazine asked me where she could find a great trench coat for spring.

Other villagers are eyeing a neighbouring farm, now protected against occupation by a trench and a permanent police guard.

The trench was about half finished, and each day the snake moved farther up the mountain.

But historically there's been relatively little seismic activity on the trench compared to the relative activity on the fault.

Smoldering mulch embers waft up from a trench and are blown toward the dummy home.

The sneakers will look great with jeans and a sweater on a cold day or a trench and a floral dress when spring hits.

As many of these branches are revived for the campaign, trench warfare is likely to erupt over the succession.

Dig a trench and install a perforated drainpipe running downslope from one spot to the other.

It came from the north traveling south and doug a trench and fractureing the earths mantle.

Lying nose-first in a trench at the side of the road, it's not so impressive.

The sandy soil of the trench walls was flecked with pieces of chert, the source of flint coveted by ancient toolmakers.

The jacket and trench are out of fashon by a decade or so.

And if you're walking along the beach, you are digging a trench in the sand with that dead foot.

The shirt doesn't really hide the armor underneath, so you're still gonna need that sketchy trench coat.

Ideally the trench should be three to six inches wider than the actual wall.

Specifically, the trench drain was not accessible for adequate cleaning.

For the border of a curved area, set bricks vertically in a deep, narrow trench outlining the area to be paved.

The demo shows our heroes digging their way through a trench.

For example, a railroad tie that is seven inches thick will have a seven-inch trench.

Make the trench six inches deep if you want an elevated walkway.

The trench will anchor the base of the retaining wall in place.

Once the trench is dug, a perforated pipe or trough is laid in it at an angle that drains the water away from the house.

In the cosseted world of celebrity journalism, the awards-show red carpet is trench warfare.

And there's barely a trench coat or a flash of its signature check in sight.

As a wheel hits one, it hops and falls down on the other side, creating a little crater or trench.

The displaced asphalt from the trench forms a ridge.

It appears that there are two auxiliary causes, the long trench warfare and the shortage of officers.

Then there is the incoming boom of a trench mortar shell and a burst of machine-gun fire.

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noun

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[shen-uh-vee] , 1807–86, English clergyman and scholar, born in Ireland.

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World English Dictionary

trench (trɛntʃ)

—n
1.	a deep ditch or furrow
2.	a ditch dug as a fortification, having a parapet of the excavated earth

—vb
3.	to make a trench in (a place)
4.	(tr) to fortify with a trench or trenches
5.	to slash or be slashed
6.	(intr; foll by on or upon) to encroach or verge

[C14: from Old French trenche something cut, from trenchier to cut, from Latin truncāre to cut off]

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Word Origin & History

trench

late 14c., "track cut through a wood," later "long, narrow ditch" (1489), from O.Fr. trenche "a slice, ditch" (1288), from trenchier "to cut," possibly from V.L. *trincare, from L. truncare "to cut or lop off" (see truncate). Trenches for military protection are first so

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called c.1500. Trench warfare first attested 1918. Trench-coat first recorded 1916, a type of coat worn by British officers in the trenches.

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trench (trěnch) Pronunciation Key
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.

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