[ UK /tɹˈɛnt‍ʃ/ ]
[ US /ˈtɹɛntʃ/ ]
NOUN
  1. any long ditch cut in the ground
  2. a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor
  3. a ditch dug as a fortification having a parapet of the excavated earth
VERB
  1. impinge or infringe upon
    This matter entrenches on other domains
    This impinges on my rights as an individual
  2. cut or carve deeply into
    letters trenched into the stone
  3. set, plant, or bury in a trench
    trench the vegetables
    trench the fallen soldiers
  4. fortify by surrounding with trenches
    He trenched his military camp
  5. cut a trench in, as for drainage
    ditch the land to drain it
    trench the fields
  6. dig a trench or trenches
    The National Guardsmen were sent out to trench
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How To Use trench In A Sentence

  • To the left a small party was holding an entrenched position on rising ground. Times, Sunday Times
  • Galicians specialize in trencherman food: suckling pig, grilled skate, pulpy octopus speckled with sea salt and paprika.
  • Officers used a digger to carve out a trench 10ft deep and 40ft long to get to the van. The Sun
  • Modder River, when all day long most of our men were quite unable to discover on which side of the stream the Boer entrenchments were, and in what they called clever trickery, but we called treachery, they are absolutely unsurpassable. With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back
  • Its robotic arm dug a trench and sensationally discovered ice beneath the surface. The Sun
  • Now he aimed and fired, lying "doggo" behind his favourite stone, while bullets from the enemy's trenches flattened themselves upon it, or buried themselves harmlessly in the dry hot soil. The Dop Doctor
  • The men in the trenches stayed down while the enemy shells were exploding.
  • Purple Label sportswear is filled with chocolate-colored suede trench coats, gray pinstriped cashmere slacks, cashmere sweaters and cashmere overcoats.
  • He had 300 soldiers, which meant that when the French attacked, 240 of them were standing in trenches around the outside of the fort. The George Washington You Didn't Know
  • Instead, they depicted the lonely troops in real time, trudging to the next trench in the torn up countryside of an unfamiliar country. Smithsonian Mag
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