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Definitions for Ditch

[1] a long, narrow excavation made in the ground by digging, as for draining or irrigating land; trench.
[2] any open passage or trench, as a natural channel or waterway.
[3] to dig a ditch or ditches in or around.
[4] to derail (a train) or drive or force (an automobile, bus, etc.) into a ditch.
[5] to crash-land on water and abandon (an airplane).
[6] Slang . to get rid of: I ditched that old hat of yours. to escape from: He ditched the cops by driving down an alley. to absent oneself from (school or a class) without permission or an acceptable reason.
[7] to dig a ditch.
[8] (of an aircraft or its crew) to crash-land in water and abandon the sinking aircraft.
[9] Slang . to be truant; play hooky.
[10] a narrow channel dug in the earth, usually used for drainage, irrigation, or as a boundary marker
[11] any small, natural waterway
[12] Irish a bank made of earth excavated from and placed alongside a drain or stream
[13] informal either of the gutters at the side of a tenpin bowling lane
[14] last ditch a last resort or place of last defence
[15] to make a ditch or ditches in (a piece of ground)
[16] (intr) to edge with a ditch
[17] informal to crash or be crashed, esp deliberately, as to avoid more unpleasant circumstances he had to ditch the car
[18] (tr) slang to abandon or discard to ditch a girlfriend
[19] informal to land (an aircraft) on water in an emergency
[20] (tr) US slang to evade to ditch the police
[21] the Ditch an informal name for the Tasman Sea

Words related to Ditch

trench, moat, dike, gutter, junk, dump, scrap, abandon, discard, jettison, forsake, canal, cut, excavation, mine, drain, watercourse, chase, channel, furrow

Words nearby Ditch

disyllable, disyoke, dit, dita, ditat deus, ditch, ditch-moss, ditchdigger, ditcher, ditchwater, dite

Origin of Ditch

before 900; 1940–45 for def 5 , 1885–90 for def 6 , 1955–60 for def 9 ; Middle English dich, Old English dīc; cognate with German Teich. See dike1

Other words from Ditch

ditch·less , adjective

Word origin for Ditch

Old English dīc; related to Old Saxon dīk, Old Norse dīki, Middle High German tīch dyke, pond, Latin fīgere to stick, see dyke 1

Synonyms for Ditch

dike, gutter, moat, trench, canal, channel, chase, cut, drain, excavation, furrow, mine, watercourse