trench

Noun

• any long ditch cut in the ground

• a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor

• a ditch dug as a fortification having a parapet of the excavated earth

Verb

• dig a trench or trenches
  • The National Guardsmen were sent out to trench
    

• cut a trench in, as for drainage
  • ditch the land to drain it
    
  • trench the fields
    

• set, plant, or bury in a trench
  • trench the fallen soldiers
    
  • trench the vegetables
    

• cut or carve deeply into
  • letters trenched into the stone
    

• fortify by surrounding with trenches
  • He trenched his military camp
    

• impinge or infringe upon
  • This impinges on my rights as an individual
    
  • This matter entrenches on other domains
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  deep , oceanic abyss , ditch , impinge , encroach , entrench