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English to English noun
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a ditch dug as a fortification having a parapet of the excavated earth |  | source: wordnet30
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a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor | | source: wordnet30
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any long ditch cut in the ground | | source: wordnet30
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A long, narrow cut in the earth; a ditch; as, a trench for draining land. | | source: webster1913 verb
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impinge or infringe upon | | Example: This impinges on my rights as an individual
This matter entrenches on other domains
source: wordnet30
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fortify by surrounding with trenches | | Example: He trenched his military camp
source: wordnet30
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cut or carve deeply into | | Example: letters trenched into the stone
source: wordnet30
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set, plant, or bury in a trench | | Example: trench the fallen soldiers
trench the vegetables
source: wordnet30
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cut a trench in, as for drainage | | Example: ditch the land to drain it
trench the fields
source: wordnet30
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dig a trench or trenches | | Example: The National Guardsmen were sent out to trench
source: wordnet30
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To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, or the like. | | source: webster1913
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To encroach; to intrench. | | source: webster1913
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