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ditch
[ dich ]
noun
- a long, narrow excavation made in the ground by digging, as for draining or irrigating land; trench.
- any open passage or trench, as a natural channel or waterway.
verb (used with object)
- to dig a ditch or ditches in or around.
- to derail (a train) or drive or force (an automobile, bus, etc.) into a ditch.
- to crash-land on water and abandon (an airplane).
- Slang.
- to get rid of:
I ditched that old hat of yours.
- to escape from:
He ditched the cops by driving down an alley.
- to absent oneself from (school or a class) without permission or an acceptable reason.
verb (used without object)
- to dig a ditch.
- (of an aircraft or its crew) to crash-land in water and abandon the sinking aircraft.
- Slang. to be truant; play hooky.
ditch
1/ ɪʃ /
noun
- a narrow channel dug in the earth, usually used for drainage, irrigation, or as a boundary marker
- any small, natural waterway
- a bank made of earth excavated from and placed alongside a drain or stream
- informal.either of the gutters at the side of a tenpin bowling lane
- last ditcha last resort or place of last defence
verb
- to make a ditch or ditches in (a piece of ground)
- intr to edge with a ditch
- informal.to crash or be crashed, esp deliberately, as to avoid more unpleasant circumstances
he had to ditch the car
- slang.tr to abandon or discard
to ditch a girlfriend
- informal.to land (an aircraft) on water in an emergency
- slang.tr to evade
to ditch the police
Ditch
2/ ɪʃ /
noun
- the Ditchan informal name for the Tasman Sea
Derived Forms
- ˈ徱ٳ, adjective
- ˈ徱ٳ, noun
Other Word Forms
- 徱ٳl adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of ditch1
Word History and Origins
Origin of ditch1
Idioms and Phrases
see last-ditch effort .Example Sentences
The Post Office has paid more than £600m of public money to continue using the faulty Horizon IT system despite deciding to ditch it more than a decade ago, the BBC can reveal.
Another unexpected find has been a woman tossed in a ditch, in stark contrast to all the other people who were buried with great care.
He tried to make a U-turn going 60 mph and crashed into a ditch.
In a last ditch attempt to avoid being taken to court by TfL after it rejected his appeal, Mr Cooper went to Peterborough Magistrates Court to make a declaration statement.
The EPA ditched the roller method in late March for a simpler solution: two bright blue machines that look like giant sausage grinders.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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