Definition of Trench

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Trench

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.

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Trench Quotations

The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.
Hunter S. Thompson

The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.
Hunter S. Thompson

Gradually I became aware of details: a company of French soldiers was marching through the streets of the town. They broke formation, and went in single file along the communication trench leading to the front line. Another group followed them.
Ernst Toller

The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain.
Peggy Noonan

It has been mentioned that in Trench I there is evidence of three successive stages of these defences.
Kathleen Kenyon

Trench Translations

trench in Dutch is loopgraaf
trench in Latin is fossa
trench in Portuguese is trincheira
trench in Spanish is trinchera

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