trenched

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adjective

ˈtrencht 

1

: furrowed or drained by trenches

2

: provided with protective trenches

trenched

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past tense and past participle of trench entry 2

Examples of trenched in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Adjective

As a divider between the lawn and garden beds, edging can be as simple as a trenched edge or a shallow, V-shape ditch. — Kelly Roberson, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Sep. 2022

Canton Street, Good Latimer Expressway, Commerce Street, Main Street, Elm Street, Cesar Chavez Boulevard, Pacific Avenue, Live Oak Street and Ross Avenue would cross over the trenched highway, connecting Deep Ellum to the rest of the city. — Dallas News, 24 May 2022

Some of Kuroda’s earlier CMOS image sensor chips, which used planar rather than trenched capacitors, are already on the market in ultrahigh speed cameras (HPV X and X2 models) made by Shimadzu. — IEEE Spectrum, 16 Dec. 2016

Word History

First Known Use

Adjective

1541, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for trenched

• entrenched
• intrenched
• retrenched
• clenched
• drenched
• quenched
• wrenched