ditch

ditch

verb

Definition of DITCH

1

to end a usually intimate relationship with <ditched his wife for a woman 30 years his junior>

Synonyms blow off, break off (with), dump, jilt, kiss off, leave

Related Words brush (aside or off), cold-shoulder, cut, high-hat, slight, snub; abandon, desert, forsake, maroon, quit

Phrases kiss good-bye

Near Antonyms hook up (with), take; befriend, latch (on or onto)

2

to get rid of as useless or unwanted <we ditched the old table at the town dump>

Synonyms cashier, cast (off), chuck, deep-six, ditch, dump, eighty-six (or 86), exorcise (also exorcize), fling (off or away), jettison, junk, lay by, lose, pitch, reject, scrap, shed, shuck (off), slough (off) also sluff (off), throw away, throw out, toss, unload

Related Words abandon, abdicate, desert, forsake; dismiss, kick out; abolish, annihilate, eliminate, eradicate, expunge, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, liquidate, remove, root (out), stamp (out), wipe out

Near Antonyms adopt, embrace, take on; employ, use, utilize; hold, hold back, keep, retain