Canadian French Meaning of trench
tranchée
Other Canadian French words related to tranchée
Nearest Words of trench
- trench coat => Trench-coat
- trench fever => Fièvre des tranchées
- trench foot => Pied de tranchée
- trench knife => couteau de tranchée
- trench mortar => Mortier de tranchée
- trench mouth => Bouche de tranchée
- trench warfare => Guerre des tranchées
- trenchancy => tranchant
- trenchand => tranchant
- trenchant => incisif
Definitions and Meaning of trench in English
trench (n)
a ditch dug as a fortification having a parapet of the excavated earth
a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor
any long ditch cut in the ground
trench (v)
impinge or infringe upon
fortify by surrounding with trenches
cut or carve deeply into
set, plant, or bury in a trench
cut a trench in, as for drainage
dig a trench or trenches
trench (v. t.)
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.
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.
trench (v. i.)
To encroach; to intrench.
To have direction; to aim or tend.
FAQs About the word trench
tranchée
a ditch dug as a fortification having a parapet of the excavated earth, a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor, any long ditch cut in the ground, impi
Caniveau,gouttière,Ravin,digue,Douves,sillon,abreuvoir,canal,ponceau,drain, égoût, évacuation, égouttoir
No antonyms found.
trenail => cheville en bois, tren => Train, tremulously => en tremblant, tremulous => tremblotant, tremulent => tremblotant,
