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Definition of 'trench'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) trench
a long, narrow excavation in the ground dug by soldiers as a defense against enemy fire or attack.

2.  trench
a deep furrow, ditch, or cut.

3.  trench
a long, narrow depression in the deep-sea floor, site of ocean deeps.

4. (v.t.) trench
to surround or fortify with trenches; entrench.

5.  trench
to cut a trench in.

6.  trench
to set or place in a trench.

7.  trench
to form (a furrow, ditch, etc.) by cutting into or through something.

8.  trench
to make a cut in.

9. (v.i.) trench
to dig a trench.

Etymology: (1350–1400; ME trenche path made by cutting < OF: act of cutting, a cut, der. of trenchier to cut < VL *trincāre, for L truncāre to lop)

Definition of 'trench'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) trench
a ditch dug as a fortification having a parapet of the excavated earth

2. (noun) trench, deep, oceanic abyss
a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor

3. (verb) trench
any long ditch cut in the ground

4. (verb) impinge, encroach, entrench, trench
impinge or infringe upon
"This impinges on my rights as an individual"; "This matter entrenches on other domains"

5. (verb) trench
fortify by surrounding with trenches
"He trenched his military camp"

6. (verb) trench
cut or carve deeply into
"letters trenched into the stone"

7. (verb) trench
set, plant, or bury in a trench
"trench the fallen soldiers"; "trench the vegetables"

8. (verb) trench, ditch
cut a trench in, as for drainage
"ditch the land to drain it"; "trench the fields"

9. (verb) trench
dig a trench or trenches
"The National Guardsmen were sent out to trench"

Definition of 'trench'

Webster Dictionary

1. (verb) trench
to cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, or the like

2. (verb) trench
to fortify by cutting a ditch, and raising a rampart or breastwork with the earth thrown out of the ditch; to intrench

3. (verb) trench
to cut furrows or ditches in; as, to trench land for the purpose of draining it

4. (verb) trench
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

5. (verb) trench
to encroach; to intrench

6. (verb) trench
to have direction; to aim or tend

7. (verb) trench
a long, narrow cut in the earth; a ditch; as, a trench for draining land

8. (verb) trench
an alley; a narrow path or walk cut through woods, shrubbery, or the like

9. (verb) trench
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

Translation of 'trench'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a long narrow ditch dug in the ground, especially as a protection for soldiers against gunfire The soldiers returned to the trenches.
Afrikaans: sloot	Arabic: خَنْدَق	Bulgarian: окоп
Brazilian: vala	Czech: zákop	German: der (Schützen-)Graben
Danish: rende; skyttegrav	Greek: χαράκωμα	Spanish: trinchera
Estonian: kaevik	Farsi: گودال؛ سنگر	Finnish: oja
French: tranchée	Hebrew: חֲפִירָה	Hindi: खन्दक
Croatian: rov	Hungarian: lövészárok	Indonesian: parit
Icelandic: skotgröf	Italian: trincea	Japanese: ざんごう
Korean: 참호	Lithuanian: tranšėja, apkasas	Latvian: tranšeja; ierakumi
Malay: parit pelindung	Dutch: loopgraaf	Norwegian: grøft; skyttergrav
Polish: okop, rów	Persian: گودال؛ سنگر	Pashto: ګودال، سنګر
Portuguese: vala	Romanian: tranşee	Russian: окоп
Slovak: zákop	Slovenian: jarek	Serbian: jarak
Swedish: dike, skyttegrav	Thai: คู	Turkish: siper, hendek
Taiwanese: 戰壕	Ukrainian: траншея, окоп	Urdu: خندق
Vietnamese: rãnh, mương	Chinese: 战壕
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