Ditch: alternatives and connections

To cast or drive out; to banish; to expel; to reject.

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To break in pieces violently; to dash together with noise and violence.

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That which is deserved; the reward or the punishment justly due; claim to recompense, usually in a good sense; right to reward; merit.

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Destitute or deprived of inhabitants; deserted; uninhabited; hence, gloomy; as, a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate house.

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To turn up, or delve in, (earth) with a spade or a hoe; to open, loosen, or break up (the soil) with a spade, or other sharp instrument; to pierce, o…

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To hollow out; to form cavity or hole in; to make hollow by cutting, scooping, or digging; as, to excavate a ball; to excavate the earth.

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The act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass.

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To quit or leave entirely; to desert; to abandon; to depart or withdraw from; to leave; as, false friends and flatterers forsake us in adversity.

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Having an empty space or cavity, natural or artificial, within a solid substance; not solid; excavated in the interior; as, a hollow tree; a hollow s…

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To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building.

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Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless.

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Heavy plank or timber extending fore and aft the whole length of a vessel's deck at the line of junction with the sides, forming a channel to the scu…

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A sunk fence; a fence, wall, or ditch, not visible till one is close upon it.

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See Ha-ha.

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To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, or the like.

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To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, or the like.

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To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, or the like.

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One who trenches; esp., one who cuts or digs ditches.

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One who trenches; esp., one who cuts or digs ditches.

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To make a noise resembling that of a hen when she calls her chickens; to cluck.

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A thick, ill-shapen piece; a clumsy leaden counter used by boys in playing chuck farthing.

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To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, or the like.

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