Trench is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TRENCH in dictionary:

VERB:
• to dig a long, narrow ditch
• dig a trench or trenches in (the ground)
• turn over the earth of (a field or garden) by digging a succession of adjoining ditches.
• border closely on; encroach on
• To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, or the like.
• To fortify by cutting a ditch, and raising a rampart or breastwork with the earth thrown out of the ditch; to intrench.
• To cut furrows or ditches in; as, to trench land for the purpose of draining it.
• 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.
• To encroach; to intrench.
• To have direction; to aim or tend.
• A long, narrow cut in the earth; a ditch; as, a trench for draining land.
• An alley; a narrow path or walk cut through woods, shrubbery, or the like.
• 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.
• impinge or infringe upon
• fortify by surrounding with trenches
• cut or carve deeply into
• set, plant, or bury in a trench
• cut a trench in, as for drainage
• make a trench in (a place)
NOUN:
• a long, narrow ditch dug by troops to provide a place of shelter from enemy fire.
• the battlefields of northern France and Belgium in the First World War
• a long, narrow, deep depression in the ocean bed, typically one running parallel to a plate boundary and marking a subduction zone
• a trench coat.
• long narrow ditch, esp one used as a shelter in war
• a ditch dug as a fortification having a parapet of the excavated earth
• a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor
• any long ditch cut in the ground
• a long, narrow ditch
• a connected system of long, narrow ditches forming an army's line.
ADJECTIVE:
• of or involving military trenches
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to dig a long, narrow excavation in the ground

Words related to TRENCH

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Words that contain TRENCH

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How to use TRENCH in a sentence

• There was a deep trench dug between my house and the road, and I used to crawl along the trench when no-one was about.
• The method of cooking the meat was to dig a trench in the ground about six feet long and eighteen inches deep.
• But this is ground on which I must not trench, for Mr.
• I got through the first verse all right, and was just swinging into the first chorus when, without the least warning, hell popped open in that trench.
• It was a curious sort of a trench too, quite a different pattern to those we had occupied at St.
• Each load of fish, as it was-wheeled into the crater, was thrown into a trench already prepared for that purpose, and the ashes were hauled over it, by means of the hoe.
• No partition from the ploughed field behind beyond a mere shallow trench enclosing what was supposed to be the garden.
• Gremberg took his position on the trench, his hand shading his eyes.
• The writing does not often trench upon the sculpture, but covers all those portions of the slabs which are not occupied by the animal.
• Gerona in 1809 sustained a siege and blockade of seven months, nearly four of them being of open trench.
• We were told that our objective was an enemy trench system about four hundred yards in length.
• At this time the men left the assembly trench to move over the open to the front line.
• The element of surprise, so essential to success even in trench warfare, was no longer possible.
• It plainly has not much connection with modern trench warfare.
• The Germans issued to a certain number of their men, generally those most exposed in trench fighting, a steel helmet considerably heavier than any of the allied helmets.
• Recesses were made in the wall of the trench about two feet above the floor.
• When he had extinguished the candle he started back along the trench toward the village, and Tish merely put her two revolvers to his back and captured him.
• I had some difficulty when I got into the trench at the end of Centre Way, in finding the 11th Battery.
• He brought a spade, and we started down the trench to the front line.
• From the dressing station, my guide and I went into a trench and along this to the gun positions.
• A path up the valley led to the communication trench, and finally down Pudding Lane to Pudding Trench.
• One day I went down the trench which led into Fampoux.
• They came out of one trench, crossed the road, and went down into another.
• I shall be glad in the meantime of as many more trench mortars and bombs as you can possibly spare.
• We rely too much on the strength of our ramparts and bastions, and allow the enemy to make his approaches, by trench and parallel, at his leisure.
• The two present first lines of trench had been taken from the Germans.
• The following morning we went to lie in a trench that had been dug by our men on a rise to the right of Spion Kop.
• He met other men on guard like himself walking up and down the trench and also carrying similar torches.
• But a low moaning just beyond the trench held his attention.

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