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Showing words for TRENCH using the English dictionary

6 Letter Words for Trench

trench

5 Letter Words for Trench

chert, retch, tench

4 Letter Words for Trench

cent, cern, cert, chen, cher, echt, entr, erth, etch, hent, hern, hert, neth, rect, rent, rhet, tche, tchr, tech, tehr, tern, then

3 Letter Words for Trench

cen, cer, che, chn, crt, cte, ctn, ctr, ech, ect, enc, ern, ert, etc, eth, hen, her, het, net, nth, rct, rec, reh, rhe, rte, tch, tec, ten, ter, the

Definitions for Trench

[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.
[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.
[10] to dig a trench.
[11] trench on /upon , to encroach or infringe on. to come close to; verge on: His remarks were trenching on poor taste.
[12] Richard Chen·e·vix [shen -uh -vee] /ˈʃɛn ə vi/ , 1807–86, English clergyman and scholar, born in Ireland.
[13] a deep ditch or furrow
[14] a ditch dug as a fortification, having a parapet of the excavated earth
[15] to make a trench in (a place)
[16] (tr) to fortify with a trench or trenches
[17] to slash or be slashed
[18] (intr; foll by on or upon) to encroach or verge

Words related to Trench

gully, dike, trough, gorge, moat, pit, foxhole, waterway, rut, canal, cut, excavation, tube, gutter, dugout, hollow, arroyo, drain, sink, drill

Words nearby Trench

tremolo arm, tremor, tremulant, tremulous, trenail, trench, trench coat, trench fever, trench foot, trench knife, trench mortar

Origin of Trench

1350–1400; Middle English trenche path made by cutting < Old French: act of cutting, a cut, derivative of trenchier to cut < Vulgar Latin *trincāre , for Latin truncāre to lop; see truncate

Other words from Trench

sub·trench , noun
un·trenched , adjective

Word origin for Trench

C14: from Old French trenche something cut, from trenchier to cut, from Latin truncāre to cut off

Synonyms for Trench

dike, foxhole, gorge, gully, moat, pit, trough, waterway, arroyo, canal, cut, depression, drain, drill, dugout, earthwork, entrenchment, excavation, fosse, furrow, gulch, gutter, hollow, main, rut, sink, tube