ditch
verb/dɪtʃ/
/dɪtʃ/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they ditch | /dɪtʃ/ /dɪtʃ/ |
| he / she / it ditches | /ˈdɪtʃɪz/ /ˈdɪtʃɪz/ |
| past simple ditched | /dɪtʃt/ /dɪtʃt/ |
| past participle ditched | /dɪtʃt/ /dɪtʃt/ |
| -ing form ditching | /ˈdɪtʃɪŋ/ /ˈdɪtʃɪŋ/ |
- [transitive] ditch something/somebody (informal) to get rid of something/somebody because you no longer want or need it/them
- The new road building programme has been ditched.
- He ditched his girlfriend.
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- [transitive, intransitive] ditch (something) if a pilot ditches an aircraft, or if it ditches, it lands in the sea in an emergencyTopics Transport by airc2
- [transitive] ditch school (North American English, informal) to stay away from school without permissionTopics Educationc2
Word OriginOld English dīc, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch dijk ‘ditch, dyke’ and German Teich ‘pond, pool’, also to dyke, in its geographical sense.
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