trench

Sinhala Dictionary definitions for trench

trench 🔊 /tɹɛˈnʧ/

trench : අගල

trench : අගළ

trench : අගල් කපනවා

trench : කාණුව

trench definition

Transitive verb.

  1. To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, or the like.
  2. To fortify by cutting a ditch, and raising a rampart or breastwork with the earth thrown out of the ditch; to intrench.
  3. To cut furrows or ditches in; as, to trench land for the purpose of draining it.
  4. To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next; as, to trench a garden for certain crops.
  5. A long, narrow cut in the earth; a ditch; as, a trench for draining land.
  6. An alley; a narrow path or walk cut through woods, shrubbery, or the like.
  7. An excavation made during a siege, for the purpose of covering the troops as they advance toward the besieged place. The term includes the parallels and the approaches.

Intransitive verb.

  1. To encroach; to intrench.
  2. To have direction; to aim or tend.