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ditch English

Meaning ditch meaning

What does ditch mean?
Definitions in simple English

ditch Noun

— A trench; a long, shallow hole that is used for irrigation or drainage. Digging ditches has long been considered one of the most arduous forms of manual labor.

ditch Verb

— To leave without telling anyone. We are going to ditch the party because it is so lame. I ditched school last week to go to the mall. — To throw away, discard or abandon. Once the sun came out we ditched our rain-gear and started a campfire.

ditch

— noun a long narrow excavation in the earth — noun any small natural waterway — verb forsake ditch a lover — verb crash or crash-land ditch a car ditch a plane — verb make an emergency landing on water — verb (= chuck) throw away Chuck these old notes — verb (= dump) sever all ties with, usually unceremoniously or irresponsibly The company dumped him after many years of service She dumped her boyfriend when she fell in love with a rich man — verb (= trench) cut a trench in, as for drainage ditch the land to drain it trench the fields

Synonyms ditch synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as ditch?

ditch English » English

trench canal gutter moat pit drain channel gully hole ravine fosse abandon waterway groove dump brook trough sluice scotch irrigation ditch irrigation canal gulch furrow drop drainage ditch drainage discard dike deep-six valley stream soar small canal sewer scrap mountain stream junk jilt irrigation channel get rid of dugout depression den chuck canalize zambi yesco yesca yerba yen pop

Topics ditch topics

What do people use ditch to talk about?
Work and occupation Occupation Working with water

Conveying water
Universe, creation World Land

Underground
Physical actions Divide into pieces

Dig
States Quality Texture

Furrow

Conjugation ditch conjugation

How do you conjugate ditch?

ditch · verb

Examples ditch examples

How do I use ditch in a sentence?

Simple sentences

I am afraid to jump over the ditch.
The stout man leaped over the shallow ditch and stumbled.
He jumped over a ditch.
He leaped over the shallow ditch.
He fell into the ditch.
The Secretary General is making a last-ditch effort to negotiate a peace treaty between the two warring factions.
The fat man jumped over the ditch and fell to the ground.
Let's ditch Tom.
Tom was so drunk that he spent the night in a ditch because he could not find his way home anymore.
Tom underestimated the slickness and drove into the ditch.
Tom fell into the ditch.
If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
Jeff and Mia are making a last ditch effort to avoid a divorce.
I hope you fall in a ditch.
I dare you to jump over this ditch.
There is a ditch on each side of the road.
Let's ditch these people and go home.
Fill up the ditch.
Why did you ditch me?
I can't jump over that ditch.

Movie subtitles

Listen, you better get your act together, young lady, or you're gonna run this new life off in the ditch.
Your pa went wild when they wouldn't let him fight. He had fits when they took us to dig the ditch for the soldiers.
And fell into the ditch when you got to the ship.
Ditch the babe.
Ditch the babe. I'd like you to meet a guy.
He nearly put us into a ditch coming up, trying to avoid a rabbit.
I was gonna ditch early, only I couldn't get away.
It isn't enough to go in the ditch.
Ay, my good lord: safe in a ditch he bides, with twenty trenched gashes on his head, the least a death to nature.
He'll ditch her.
He ditched me and he'll ditch you.
He'll ditch everybody because that's what he wants.
Why don't you ditch these guys and come up to my place?
Looks like you're trying to ditch us.
Oh, that's why you wanted to ditch the play.
We were up to our knees in water trying to get a drain ditch through to the main channel.
The ditch is full of soft snow.
That is, unless you fall into another ditch.
I said, look out for the great big ditch.
He had fits when they took us to dig the ditch for the soldiers.
I used to get an irrigation ditch so full of repented sinners I'd pretty near drown half of 'em.
Ditch her.
And ditch that cigar.
Why don't you turn the next corner and we'll ditch them.
Hardly. He nearly put us into a ditch coming up, trying to avoid a rabbit.
Everything seems to be falling into your ditch tonight.
This means that some poor wretch named Serafin is lying in a ditch somewhere with a dagger in his throat.
And now you drive us into a ditch.
He's driving his car, see? Another car comes along, runs him into a ditch. Marky gets all smashed up.
I used to get an irrigation ditch so full of repented sinners I'd pretty near drown half of them.
Fill the ditch up with corpses of polacks and corpses of masters!
Prentiss. open your cockpit and unstrap your chute. We're headed for the ditch. Are you ready?
Ditch her!
Well, maybe we can ditch Droopy after supper.
You better ditch the heap.
Honey, if you'll take my advice, you'll ditch me.

News and current affairs

NAIROBI - With unemployment soaring, bankruptcies climbing, and stock markets in free-fall, it may at first glance seem sensible to ditch the fight against climate change and put environmental investments on hold.
Bush's initiative is a last-ditch effort to salvage America's position in a region where it is on the defensive on all fronts.
The September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on America brought Musharraf into the international limelight as he agreed to ditch the Taliban and support the United States-led war on terror.
During the 1980's, South Korea, the Philippines, and Taiwan managed to ditch their dictators, partly because they were utterly dependent on US arms and money.
The worst was only averted by the last-ditch agreement between the miners' leader, Miron Cosma, and the Prime Minister, Radu Vasile, struck at a famous mediaeval monastery on the Olt river.
This point is almost trite, but it remains virtually unnoticed by last-ditch defenders of the Bush administration's foreign policy.
Rather than trying to mount a last-ditch defense of the fixed exchange rate, the government, at the suggestion of the Bank of England, agreed to abandon the gold standard and devalue the pound.
In that case, the key question will be whether the Social Democrats can ditch their allies further to the left.
A last-ditch diplomatic solution appears unlikely, given that the nuclear question plays a decisive role in the Iranian regime's factional struggles, in which anyone favoring compromise can be considered the loser.
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy ended up trying desperately to appeal to those very sentiments in his last-ditch effort to avert his political demise.

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