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English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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FromMiddle Englishdich, fromOld Englishdīċ(“trench, moat”) fromProto-Germanic*dīkaz (compareSwedishdike,Icelandicdíki,West Frisiandyk(“dam”),Dutchdijk(“dam”),GermanTeich(“pond”)), fromProto-Indo-European*dʰeygʷ-(“to stick, set up”) (compareLatinfīgō(“to affix, fasten”),Lithuaniandiegti(“to prick; plant”),dýgsti(“to geminate, grow”)). Doublet ofdike.

Noun

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ditch

ditch (pluralditches)

  1. Atrench; a long, shallow indentation, as forirrigation ordrainage.
    Diggingditches has long been considered one of the most demanding forms of manual labor.
    The truck careered off the road into aditch.
    • 2011, Ralph D. Sawyer,Ancient Chinese Warfare‎[1],Basic Books,→ISBN,→LCCN,→OCLC,page30:
      Ditches continued to be employed as the sole defensive measure at many sites even after wall building began to emerge. For example, an immenseditch varying between 15 and 20 meters in width and marked by depths of 2.5 to 3.8 meters has recently been discovered in Hubei near Sui-chou.
  2. (Ireland) A raisedbank of earth and thehedgerow on top.
Derived terms
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Terms derived from the noun "ditch"
Translations
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trench
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Verb

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ditch (third-person singular simple presentditches,present participleditching,simple past and past participleditched)

  1. (transitive) Todiscard orabandon.
    Once the sun came out weditched our rain-gear and started a campfire.
    Why did youditch your last boyfriend? He was so nice to you.
  2. (ambitransitive, aviation) To deliberatelycrash-land anairplane onwater.
    When the second engine failed, the pilot was forced toditch; their last location was just south of the Azores.
  3. (ambitransitive) To deliberately notattendclasses; toplay hookey.
    The truant officer caught Louiseditching with her friends, and her parents were forced to pay a fine.
    • 2005 December 2, Dan Shive,El Goonish Shive (webcomic),Comic for Friday, Dec 2, 2005:
      "No,instead, it just had enough power totransform me,overload, and force me towait tochange back! I had toditch school!"
  4. (intransitive) To digditches.
    Enclosure led to fuller winter employment in hedging andditching.
  5. (transitive) To digditches around.
    The soldiersditched the tent to prevent flooding.
  6. (transitive) To throw into aditch.
    The engine wasditched and turned on its side.
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Derived terms
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Translations
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to abandon
to crash-land on the sea
to play hookey
to dig ditches

Etymology 2

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From earlierdeche, fromMiddle Englishdechen, fromOld Englishdēcan(“to smear, plaster, daub”). More atdeech.

Verb

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ditch (third-person singular simple presentditches,present participleditching,simple past and past participleditched)

  1. Alternative form ofdeech.

Noun

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ditch (usuallyuncountable,pluralditches)

  1. Alternative form ofdeech.
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