TRENCH


Meaning of TRENCH in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a trench coat (= a long raincoat with a belt )

a military-style trench coat

dig a hole/trench/grave etc

They dig a small hole in the sand to bury their eggs.

trench coat

trench warfare (= fighting from long holes dug into the ground )

There he experienced the full horrors of trench warfare.

trench warfare

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

deep

Water belched out as he drenched each tree, pouring the costly stuff into the deep trench which circled their trunks.

Across the Volga, for example, engineers had to dig a 16-metre deep trench to accommodate the pipe.

■ NOUN

coat

He had a black trench coat on and his right hand was deep inside the right pocket.

It was all preparation for her dream job: a foreign correspondent, roaming the world in a trench coat .

Immediately, they heard raised voices and saw that the porter was engaged in an altercation with two men in trench coats .

Check any narrow-minded seriousness at the door with your urban trench coat and get ready for an absolute annihilation of bourgeois civility.

He was wearing a trench coat , military style with wide lapels, the collar turned up, belted.

Purple Label sportswear is filled with chocolate-colored suede trench coats , gray pinstriped cashmere slacks, cashmere sweaters and cashmere overcoats.

He carried his trench coat over his arm.

No cocktail hat, no military decorations, no trench coat actually worn in the trenches.

warfare

More years of trench warfare and carnage on the Western Front.were now almost unavoidable.

The little-noticed trench warfare over Senate confirmation of presidential appointees is nothing new.

Lastly, trench warfare is a policy Mr Yeltsin has pursued with some success for much of the past 12 months.

Yet to continue trench warfare as before would be a mistake.

The musical evokes the courage and humour of the troops amidst the horror of trench warfare .

■ VERB

dig

They dig trenches which make it difficult for me to get out?

Everyone dug tunnels and trenches under fire, sometimes hitting hard soil and only advancing five or six yards a day.

Across the Volga, for example, engineers had to dig a 16-metre deep trench to accommodate the pipe.

The rows of atoms, as it were, dislike being dug out of their comfortable trenches of lowest energy.

Fabritsyn dug trenches , tended cattle, and carried rebel arms and explosives between bases.

digging

By digging a trench and doing nothing Kasparov could probably hold the draw, but that is not his style.

Planted blueberry bushes. Digging trench for cabin foundation.

And so on that soaking wet winter day we began digging our trench .

I was assigned to a crew digging trenches .

fill

Put in a V-shaped trench 6in apart above a layer of course sand. Fill trench with light soil and water well.

Purple Label sportswear is filled with chocolate-colored suede trench coats, gray pinstriped cashmere slacks, cashmere sweaters and cashmere overcoats.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

the Mariana Trench

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

the fighting men in the trenches of France

the Puerto Rico Trench

Workers dug a trench for gas lines.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

But we in the trenches just never see the end product.

Downbuckling is marked by an offshore trench .

Parapets gradually grew lower and lower until the trench became little deeper than a roadside ditch.

The mosquitoes don't seem to like the rain either, they all seem to be at the back of the trench .

There had been such a wide expanse of firm ground that a trench had never been worn.

Those same nice folks get awful upset when somebody goes out and jumps into the trenches and tries to make it work.

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