Ditch

Noun

 * 1) A trench; a long, shallow indentation, as for irrigation or drainage.

Verb

 * 1)  To discard or abandon.
 * 2)  To deliberately crash-land an airplane on the sea.
 * 3)  To deliberately not attend classes; to play hookey.
 * 4)  To dig ditches.
 * 5)  To dig ditches around.

Adjectives for Ditch
impassable; rain-soaked; muddy; filthy; deep; briny; oozy;

Verbs for Ditch
bog in—; fall into—; level—; mire in—; plunge in—; turn in—; —ensnares; — forms ; —furnishes ; —serves.

Thesaurus
rut, sap, scissure, score, scrap, scratch, screen, seam, seawall, secrete, settle down, shake, shake off, shuffle out of, shutter dam, skirt, slit, slit trench, slot, slough, split, stone wall, streak, striate, sunk fence, talk down, throw away, throw out, throw over, throw overboard, toss overboard, touch down, trench, trough, troughing, troughway, tunnel, upwind, valley, void, wadi, wall, way, weir, wicket dam, work, wrinkle, abandon, abri, abysm, abyss, adit, alight, approach trench, aqueduct, arch dam, arroyo, backstop, bamboo curtain, bank, bar, barrage, barrier, bear-trap dam, beaver dam, beg, boom, box canyon, breach, break, breakwater, breastwork, brick wall, buffer, bulkhead, bulwark, bunker, bury, cache, canal, canalization, canalize, canyon, carve, cashier, cast, cast aside, cast away, cast off, cavity, chamfer, channel, chap, chasm, check, chimney, chink, chisel, chuck, circumvent, cleave, cleft, cleuch, clough, cofferdam, col, come down, come in, communication trench, conceal, conduit, corrugate, coulee, couloir, countermine, coupure, course, cover, crack, cranny, crash-land, crevasse, crevice, crimp, cut, cut apart, cwm, dado, dam, deep-six, defense, defile, dell, descend, dike, discard, dispose of, ditch, donga, double, double sap, downwind, draw, duct, dugout, dump, earthwork, egress, eighty-six, eliminate, elude, embankment, engrave, ensconce, entrance, entrenchment, escape, evade, excavation, exit, fault, fence, fire trench, fissure, flaw, flume, flute, flying sap, fortified tunnel, fosse, foxhole, fracture, furrow, gallery, gap, gape, gash, gate, get around, get away from, get out of, get quit of, get rid of, get shut of, give away, goffer, gorge, gouge, gravity dam, groin, groove, gulch, gulf, gully, gutter, ha-ha, hide, hole, hydraulic-fill dam, incise, incision, ingress, iron curtain, jam, jettison, jetty, jilt, joint, junk, kennel, kloof, land, leak, leaping weir, levee, level off, light, logjam, milldam, mine, moat, mole, mound, notch, nullah, occult, open, opening, overshoot, pancake, parallel, parapet, part with, pass, passage, passageway, pleat, plow, portcullis, rabbet, rampart, ravine, reject, remove, rent, rifle, rift, rime, rive, roadblock, rock-fill dam, rupture,

Etymology
dich:, from dic: ‘trench, moat’, from  (cf. West Frisian dyk: ‘dam’, Dutch dijk: ‘id.’, German Teich: ‘pond’), from  ‘to stick, set up’ (cf. Latin figere: ‘to affix, fasten’, Lithuanian diegti: ‘to prick; plant’, dýgsti: ‘to geminate, grow’). Doublet of.

Derived terms

 * ditchdigger
 * ditch weed


 * ditcher


 * ox is in the ditch

Synonyms

 * abandon
 * discard
 * dump
 * jettison
 * lose
 * shed

Noun

 * Albanian:
 * Bulgarian: канавка, траншея
 * Burmese: မြောင်း
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 水溝, 水沟, 溝渠, 沟渠,
 * Croatian: ,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: oja (for drainage), kanava (for irrigation)
 * French:, ,
 * Georgian: თხრილი
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Georgian: თხრილი
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Hungarian: ,


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 側溝 (sokkō)
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: grāvis
 * Norwegian: grøft, dike
 * Portuguese: Trincheira
 * Romanian: şanţ and
 * Russian: ,
 * Scots: sheuch
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Slovene: ,
 * Spanish:, , ,
 * Swedish: dike
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:, ,
 * Welsh: ffos
 * Ukrainian:, ,
 * Welsh: ffos
 * Welsh: ffos

Verb

 * Bulgarian: изхвърлям
 * Finnish:
 * French: se de


 * German: entledigen
 * Russian: ,


 * Finnish: tehdä pakkolasku mereen
 * German: notwassern


 * Russian: совершать вынужденную посадку на воду


 * Finnish:
 * French: faire l'école buissonnière,
 * German:


 * Norwegian: skulke
 * Swedish: skolka, skubba


 * Bulgarian: копая канавка


 * Swedish: dika