Definitions for ditches

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ditches ditch

Spelling: [dich]

IPA: /dɪtʃ/

Ditches is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 210 anagrams from letters in ditches (cdehist).

Definitions for ditches

noun

1. a long, narrow excavation made in the ground by digging, as for draining or irrigating land; trench.
2. any open passage or trench, as a natural channel or waterway.

verb (used with object)

1. to dig a ditch or ditches in or around.
2. to derail (a train) or drive or force (an automobile, bus, etc.) into a ditch.
3. to crash-land on water and abandon (an airplane).
4. Slang. to get rid of: to escape from: to absent oneself from (school or a class) without permission or an acceptable reason.

verb (used without object)

1. to dig a ditch.
2. (of an aircraft or its crew) to crash-land in water and abandon the sinking aircraft.
3. Slang. to be truant; play hooky.

Origin of ditches

before 900; 1940-45 for def 5, 1885-90 for def 6, 1955-60 for def 9; Middle English dich, Old English dīc; cognate with German Teich. See dike¹

Examples for ditches

Upon which he bid the postillion alight, and look into the ditch.

Good Indian took one long step over the ditch, and went on steadily.

His mind had been so preoccupied that he had forgotten about the ditch.

I went racing, but a half mile north I skidded into the ditch.

The car finally came to rest just past the trees, back in the ditch.

How many times I used to have bets with my cousins that I would jump that ditch!

If America really wants to help Africa grow with trade and investment, it needs to ditch a number of stereotypes it still holds.

Fonda tried in vain to convince Jarrow and Archer to ditch the project.

It also made sense for Sorenson to ditch Bachmann for entirely political reasons.

Who knew explaining how to change a tire and back out of a ditch could be so seductive?