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trench

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1. trench - Noun

2. trench - Verb

3. Trench - Proper noun

Meaning

To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, or the like.

To fortify by cutting a ditch, and raising a rampart or breastwork with the earth thrown out of the ditch; to intrench.

To cut furrows or ditches in; as, to trench land for the purpose of draining it.

To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next; as, to trench a garden for certain crops.

To encroach; to intrench.

A long, narrow cut in the earth; a ditch; as, a trench for draining land.

An alley; a narrow path or walk cut through woods, shrubbery, or the like.

An excavation made during a siege, for the purpose of covering the troops as they advance toward the besieged place. The term includes the parallels and the approaches.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason. Hunter S. Thompson

Love is like trench warfare - you cannot see the enemy, but you know he is there and that it is wiser to keep your head down. Lawrence Durrell

The live-and-let-live system that emerged in the bitter trench warfare of World War I demonstrates that friendship is hardly necessary for cooperation based upon reciprocity to get started. Under suitable circumstances, cooperation can develop even between antagonists. Robert Axelrod

jace's clothes had been clean, stylish, ordinary. Sebastian had been wearing a long black wool trench coat that had looked expensive. Like an evil Burbeery ad, Simon said when she was done. Cassandra Clare

To beg of the miser is to dig a trench in the sea. Turkish Proverb

In time of war, any hole is trench. Uruguayan Proverb

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