Trench
noun
1.
Fortification. a long, narrow excavation in the ground, the earth from which is thrown up in front to serve as a shelter from enemy fire or attack.
2.
trenches, a system of such excavations, with their embankments, etc.
3.
a deep furrow, ditch, or cut.
4.
Oceanography. a long, steep-sided, narrow depression in the ocean floor.
verb (used with object)
5.
to surround or fortify with trenches; entrench.
6.
to cut a trench in.
7.
to set or place in a trench.
8.
to form (a furrow, ditch, etc.) by cutting into or through something.
9.
to make a cut in; cut into; carve.
verb (used without object)
10.
to dig a trench.
Verb phrases
11.
trench on/upon,
to encroach or infringe on.
to come close to; verge on:
His remarks were trenching on poor taste.
noun
1.
Richard Chenevix
[shen-uh-vee] /ˈʃɛn ə vi/ (Show IPA), 1807–86, English clergyman and scholar, born in Ireland.
noun
1.
a deep ditch or furrow
2.
a ditch dug as a fortification, having a parapet of the excavated earth
verb
3.
to make a trench in (a place)
4.
(transitive) to fortify with a trench or trenches
5.
to slash or be slashed
6.
(intransitive; foll by on or upon) to encroach or verge
trench
(trěnch)
A long, steep-sided valley on the ocean floor. Trenches form when one tectonic plate slides beneath another plate at a subduction zone. The Marianas Trench, located in the western Pacific east of the Philippines, is the deepest known trench (10,924 m or 35,831 ft) and the deepest area in the ocean.
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