Usually means: Deep, narrow excavations for defense.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. trenches, the trenches: Merriam-Webster
  2. trenches, the trenches: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. trenches: Collins English Dictionary
  4. trenches: Vocabulary.com
  5. Trenches, trenches: Wordnik
  6. trenches: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. trenches: Wiktionary
  8. trenches: Dictionary.com
  9. trenches: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Trenches (band), Trenches (song), Trenches (video game), Trenches (web series), Trenches: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. trenches: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. trenches: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. trenches: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. trenches: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (trenches)

▸ noun:  The front line of any field of endeavor, as the line of scrimmage in American football, patrol duty for a policeman.
▸ noun:  (figurative) A difficult or disadvantageous situation; a low point.

Similar:
ditch, entrench, impinge, encroach, back line, touchline, offensive line of scrimmage, backfield, touch line, sideline, more...

Opposite:
peaks, crests, summits

Types:
foxhole, fire trench, support trench, sap, more...

Phrases:
slit trenches, communication trenches, ocean trenches, oceanic trenches, fire trenches, more...

Adjectives:
german, deep, front, shallow, line, open, narrow, old, turkish, british, long



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Similar:
ditch, entrench, impinge, encroach, back line, touchline, offensive line of scrimmage, backfield, touch line, sideline, more...

Opposite:
peaks, crests, summits

Types:
foxhole, fire trench, support trench, sap, more...

Phrases:
slit trenches, communication trenches, ocean trenches, oceanic trenches, fire trenches, tail of the trenches, to open the trenches, in the trenches, fortified communication trenches, in the trenches i, more...

Adjectives:
german, deep, front, shallow, line, open, narrow, old, turkish, british, long



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