trench
noun/trentʃ/
/trentʃ/
- a long, deep hole dug in the ground, for example for carrying away water
- Workmen were digging a trench beside the road.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- deep
- narrow
- shallow
- …
- dig
- warfare
- foot
- in the trench
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- a long, deep hole dug in the ground in which soldiers can be protected from enemy attacks (for example in northern France and Belgium in the First World War)
- life in the trenches
- They had not been prepared for the horrors of trench warfare.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- deep
- narrow
- shallow
- …
- dig
- warfare
- foot
- in the trench
- (also ocean trench)a long, deep, narrow hole in the ocean floor
Word Originlate Middle English (in the senses ‘track cut through a wood’ and ‘sever by cutting’): from Old French trenche (noun), trenchier (verb), based on Latin truncare ‘to maim’.
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