Definitions for trough

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trough trough

Spelling: [trawf, trof or, sometimes, trawth, troth]

IPA: /trɔf, trɒf or, sometimes, trɔθ, trɒθ/

Trough is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 88 anagrams from letters in trough (ghortu).

Definitions for trough

noun

1. a long, narrow, open receptacle, usually boxlike in shape, used chiefly to hold water or food for animals.
2. any of several similarly shaped receptacles used for various commercial or household purposes.
3. a channel or conduit for conveying water, as a gutter under the eaves of a building for carrying away rain water.
4. any long depression or hollow, as between two ridges or waves.
5. Oceanography. a long, wide, and deep depression in the ocean floor having gently sloping sides, wider and shallower than a trench. Compare trench (def 4).
6. Meteorology. an elongated area of relatively low pressure.
7. the lowest point, especially in an economic cycle.

Origin of trough

before 900; Middle English; Old English trōh; cognate with Dutch, German, Old Norse trog

Examples for trough

She did not know how to sit at table, and would only eat out of a trough.

Once he got up and walked over to the trough for a drink of water.

She see us a-wallowin' in the trough and our mast thrashin' for all it was worth.

Remove the turkey to a cutting board with a trough to catch any drippings and let it rest for about 20 minutes.

Plunging toward the trough of a shockwave, the engine screams to a halt.

But no: whether on the left or the right, they are all pigs at a trough of clichés.

Strangely, the year marked a trough, since their 1996 return reported donations of $35,530.

At the next instant, the brig rose on a sea, settled in the trough, and struck.

You'll be coming up to the trough with me—the ould home, you know.

Harold tumbled out of the trough in the excess of his emotion.