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ditch

/dɪt͡ʃ/noun, verb1 syllable

Ditch means: throw away.

Synonyms for ditch8

verb, as in throw away

chuck

verb, as in sever all ties with, usually unceremoniously or irresponsibly

dump

verb, as in cut a trench in, as for drainage

trench

also used for ditch

abandon, discard, jettison, lose, shed

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What does ditch mean?8

verb

1

throw away“Chuck these old notes”

2

sever all ties with, usually unceremoniously or irresponsibly“The company dumped him after many years of service”

3

cut a trench in, as for drainage“ditch the land to drain it”

4

forsake“ditch a lover”

5

make an emergency landing on water

6

crash or crash-land“ditch a car”

noun

1

a long narrow excavation in the earth

2

any small natural waterway

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What rhymes with ditch?16

two syllables

enrich
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Ditch in a sentence

  • It was a last-ditch effort to stop them, and we failed anyway.DuosDragonPolyglot
  • Karl was with his friends, doing some late-night ding-dong ditching.Amastan
  • I am afraid to jump over the ditch.CC
  • It is not good to ditch a class.Ioan_Cristian
  • The minority party made a last-ditch effort to block passage of the bills.CK
  • The stout man leaped over the shallow ditch and stumbled.unknown
  • Dmitri tried to drive the truck out of the ditch.Amastan
  • I'm not afraid to jump over this ditch.CK

Sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR, credited to their authors.

Forms of ditch

as a noun

plural
ditches

as a verb

past tense
ditched
present participle
ditching
third-person singular
ditches
past participle
ditched