ditch
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /dɪtʃ/
ditch (plural ditches)
- A trench; a long, shallow indentation, as for irrigation or drainage.
- Digging ditches has long been considered one of the most demanding forms of manual labor.
- French: fossé, tranchée, rigole
- German: Graben, Schanze
- Italian: fossato, trincea, canale, canalone, canale di scarico, affossamento, fosso
- Portuguese: trincheira
- Russian: кана́ва
- Spanish: surco, zanja, trinchera, acequia, cuneta
ditch (ditches, present participle ditching; past and past participle ditched)
- (transitive) To discard or abandon.
- Once the sun came out we ditched our rain-gear and started a campfire.
- (intransitive) To deliberately crash-land an airplane on water.
- When the second engine failed, the pilot was forced to ditch; their last location was just south of the Azores.
- (intransitive) To deliberately not attend classes; to play hookey.
- The truant officer caught Louise ditching with her friends, and her parents were forced to pay a fine.
- (intransitive) To dig ditches.
- Enclosure led to fuller winter employment in hedging and ditching.
- (transitive) To dig ditches around.
- The soldiers ditched the tent to prevent flooding.
- (transitive) To throw into a ditch.
- The engine was ditched and turned on its side.
- French: se débarrasser de, laisser tomber, larguer, abandonner
- German: entledigen
- Italian: dismettere, riporre, mettere via
- Russian: броса́ть
- Spanish: dejar, abandonar
- German: notwassern
- Italian: ammarare
- French: faire l'école buissonnière, (France) sécher
- German: schwänzen
- Portuguese: cabular aula, matar aula
- Russian: окапывать
ditch (ditches, present participle ditching; past and past participle ditched)
- Alternative form of deech
ditch (uncountable)
- Alternative form of deech
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