trench
noun
a long, narrow excavation in the ground, the earth from which is thrown up in front to serve as a shelter from enemy fire or attack.
trenched
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past participleof trench.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof trench.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
trenchnouna long, narrow excavation in the ground, the earth from which is thrown up in front to serve as a shelter from enemy fire or attack.
Example Sentences
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After clearing swaths of torched aloe plants, he trenched in about 500 native plants that he said “will look spectacular in a few years.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2025
“Areas that they may have trenched out and are working in could fill in with not just water but with more debris,” Fugate said.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 2, 2021
Haphazardly established in the 1960s, the massive garbage pile was never trenched or lined, and no one knows what might be leaking from the dump into the ground.
From New York Times ● Oct. 18, 2019
And he was as equally unhappy during construction, when the company trenched up his manicured yard to run the pipeline 60 feet from the front door of his family’s 5-year-old brick home.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 29, 2017
Many of the fair’s fifty-seven miles of roadway were still either submerged or coated with mud, and others had been gouged and trenched by vehicles that had used the roads while they were still sodden.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
