trench: Meaning and Definition of

trench

1. 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.
2. a system of such excavations, with their embankments, etc.
3. a deep furrow, ditch, or cut.
4. a long, steep-sided, narrow depression in the ocean floor.

1. to surround or fortify with trenches; entrench.
2. to cut a trench in.
3. to set or place in a trench.
4. to form (a furrow, ditch, etc.) by cutting into or through something.
5. to make a cut in; cut into; carve.

1. to dig a trench.
2. His remarks were trenching on poor taste.
1. to encroach or infringe on.
2. to come close to; verge on:His remarks were trenching on poor taste.

Trench

1. 1807–86, English clergyman and scholar, born in Ireland.