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Trench   /trɛntʃ/   Listen
Trench

noun
1.
A ditch dug as a fortification having a parapet of the excavated earth.
2.
A long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor.  Synonyms: deep, oceanic abyss.
3.
Any long ditch cut in the ground.
verb
(past & past part. trenched; pres. part. trenching)
1.
Impinge or infringe upon.  Synonyms: encroach, entrench, impinge.  "This matter entrenches on other domains"
2.
Fortify by surrounding with trenches.
3.
Cut or carve deeply into.
4.
Set, plant, or bury in a trench.  "Trench the vegetables"
5.
Cut a trench in, as for drainage.  Synonym: ditch.  "Trench the fields"
6.
Dig a trench or trenches.



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"Trench" Quotes from Famous Books



... 1915 Foch left Cassel and took up headquarters at Frevent, between Amiens and Doullens, whence he directed those engagements in Artois which demonstrated that though trench warfare was not the warfare he had studied and prepared for, and nearly all its problems were new, he was master of it not less than he would have ...
— Foch the Man - A Life of the Supreme Commander of the Allied Armies • Clara E. Laughlin
... by the zeal of the true martyr. "And," he added, regretfully, "I'll shoot all the dogs and bury 'em in one long trench. I don't want to see anything again that was ...
— Old Rose and Silver • Myrtle Reed
... attack us as we were embarking. This guard would be encountered first and, as they were in a natural intrenchment, would be able to hold the enemy for a considerable time. My surprise was great to find there was not a single man in the trench. Riding back to the boat I found the officer who had commanded the guard and learned that he had withdrawn his force when the main body fell back. At first I ordered the guard to return, but finding that it would take some time to get the men together and march them ...
— Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete • Ulysses S. Grant
... incident I remember was of a different kind. The Archbishop of Dublin, Dr. Trench, on behalf of his fellow-prelates, made a long speech against the Bill. Dr. Trench was a man of very high character and fine talent, but he was not at home in the House of Lords, or, indeed, in a political speech. When he advanced to the table of the ...
— Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885 • Stuart J. Reid, ed.
... twenty days, have been waiting in the forts at Liege the help so many times promised from the allies; of our lancers charging into mitrailleuse-fire as if they were in a tournament; let us remember that our heroic little infantrymen, crouched behind a hedge or in a trench, keeping up their fire for ten hours running until their ammunition was exhausted, and forced at last to retire, wounded and worn out, without a chief to take orders from, have had no other thought than that of finding some burgomaster or commissioner of police, in order ...
— Antwerp to Gallipoli - A Year of the War on Many Fronts--and Behind Them • Arthur Ruhl


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