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trench | American Dictionary

trench
noun[ C ]
us/trentʃ/
a narrow channel dug into the ground:
I dug a trench around the tent to keep rain water from getting in.
earth science
A trench is also a long, deep valley at the bottom of an ocean.

Examples of trench

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Physical obstructions, concrete blocks, trenches, and pits make internal movement difficult, as do frequent curfews and closures.
However, when a survey with trenches was conducted (figure 5), suddenly a totally different picture appeared.
He enlisted in 1917 and went directly to the trenches.
Fenthion is sprayed at weekly intervals at a dosage of 0.78 ml/1 in polluted water, drains and trenches, which are the major breeding sites.
Seedlings at open, disturbed sites were attacked more than seedlings protected by small roofs and trenches or those under a closed canopy.
Fraternization between trenches also produced opportunities to transmit propaganda directly to the enemy.
British troops went to war and stayed in the trenches willingly.
The medical establishment is described as a military command, with cutting-edge researchers in the vanguard against disease and public health workers in the trenches.
The proportion of marked termites in a sample was three to eight times greater in the trenches containing the marked paper relative to other trenches.
In some cases, the "memory" was an image of what patients feared would happen if they remained in the trenches.
Treatment effects (irrigation, species and trenching) were assumed to be fixed, whereas sites were considered random.
Half of the subplots were randomly selected and trenched, the others remained untrenched.
Serving one's time and surviving combat in battlefield trenches in youth mean promotion for some, but discharge, desertion or death for others.
His first trenches were in the lakebed and produced almost no material.
We then expanded these trenches in a series of contiguous 2- 2-m units arranged in a grid across the sur face of each terrace.
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