trench
IPA: trˈɛntʃ
noun
- A long, narrow ditch or hole dug in the ground.
- (military) A narrow excavation as used in warfare, as a cover for besieging or emplaced forces.
- (archaeology) A pit, usually rectangular with smooth walls and floor, excavated during an archaeological investigation.
- (informal) A trench coat.
- A suburb of Telford, Telford and Wrekin borough, Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ6912).
- A habitational surname.
verb
- (usually followed by upon) To invade, especially with regard to the rights or the exclusive authority of another; to encroach.
- (military, infantry) To excavate an elongated pit for protection of soldiers and or equipment, usually perpendicular to the line of sight toward the enemy.
- (archaeology) To excavate an elongated and often narrow pit.
- To have direction; to aim or tend.
- To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, etc.
- To cut furrows or ditches in.
- To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next.
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Examples of "trench" in Sentences
- The grenade exploded and blew him out of the trench.
- I like the various positions of the men in the trench.
- The trench flame heats the burner which heats the neck.
- The forearc lies between the trench and the volcanic arc.
- The fusillade of shots sent them reeling into the trench.
- I was hauled out of the trench and placed in the ambulance.
- The fusillade of shots sent their bodies reeling into the trench.
- In this method, a trench is dredged in the bed of the water channel.
- Aaron's always in the trenches, an invaluable voice in a sea of tumult.
- The deeper and more remote the trench is, the better the degree of protection.
- A trench is always a classic spring piece, great to have for those rainy days.
- It's usually a variety of steak served with frozen vegetables and what they describe as trench fried.
- Reagan broke that pattern, but it took him a while engaged in trench warfare with the old bull Elephants.
- So the only way that they could really construct what we call a trench would be actually what I call a fortification meaning they would have to build up.
- Below the trench is a lace negligee of barbed wire, all the barbed wire the kibbutz had in 1948, and beyond that are Egyptian tanks, just where they stopped when they could go no farther.
- They would dress up like their father in trench coats and hats, several of them, and jump into several different cars and screech off in different directions to drive the CIA agents nuts, because they didnt know which one was really Anderson and which one to follow.