Meaning

7 senses
  1. (usually)To invade, especially with regard to the rights or the exclusive authority of another; to encroach.

  2. To excavate an elongated pit for protection of soldiers and or equipment, usually perpendicular to the line of sight toward the enemy.

  3. To excavate an elongated and often narrow pit.

  4. To have direction; to aim or tend.

  5. To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, etc.

  6. To cut furrows or ditches in.

    to trench land for the purpose of draining it

    cut a trench in, as for drainage

  7. To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next.

    to trench a garden for certain crops

    dig a trench or trenches

Examples

23 sentences
  1. Tom is wearing a trench coat.

    Том носить тренчкот.

    ruТом в плаще.

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  2. Tom was wearing a trench coat.

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  3. I don't own a trench coat.

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  4. Tom wasn't wearing a trench coat.

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  5. Both Tom and Mary were wearing trench coats.

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Origin

Borrowed into Middle English from Old French trenche. Doublet of tranche and traunch. Poss

Borrowed into Middle English from Old French trenche. Doublet of tranche and traunch. Possible doublet of English: truncate

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Forms

trenches, trenching, trenched, trenched
Base formtrench · to trench
3rd person singulartrenches
Present participletrenching
Past simpletrenched
Past participletrenched

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theytrench
he, she, ittrenches

Past simpleLesson

all personstrenched

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave trenched
he, she, ithas trenched

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill trench

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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