1
as in to dump
to end a usually intimate relationship with
ditched his wife for a woman 30 years his junior
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2
as in to discard
to get rid of as useless or unwanted
we ditched the old table at the town dump
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Recent Examples of ditch
Evy Lewis, Chicago Tribune, 20 Apr. 2026
The vehicle went off the road to the right and into a ditch, then struck several trees.
—Paula Wethington, CBS News, 20 Apr. 2026
Kate Wong, Scientific American, 23 Apr. 2026
Politicians ditched their campaign trails and rushed back to New Delhi for the three-day special session as Modi and his ministers pressed hard for the passage of the bill.
—Menaka Doshi, Bloomberg, 21 Apr. 2026
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Noun
Crete Township highway maintenance workers found the dead dogs March 3 in trash bags in a ditch near Norfolk Avenue and Kings Road, Will County sheriff’s Deputy Chief Jeremy Zdzinicki said.
—Evy Lewis, Chicago Tribune, 20 Apr. 2026
The vehicle went off the road to the right and into a ditch, then struck several trees.
—Paula Wethington, CBS News, 20 Apr. 2026
Verb
Vertebrates ditched their body armor and scales for smooth skin; cephalopods lost their external shell.
—Kate Wong, Scientific American, 23 Apr. 2026
Politicians ditched their campaign trails and rushed back to New Delhi for the three-day special session as Modi and his ministers pressed hard for the passage of the bill.
—Menaka Doshi, Bloomberg, 21 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ditch
Noun
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Her body was found on the property, which Pennel sold last year, in January while a worker was digging a trench, ESPN reported.—
Ryan Morik,
FOXNews.com,
25 Apr. 2026
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An off-white trench and leather loafers keep the palette polished.—
Christina Holevas,
Vogue,
25 Apr. 2026
Verb
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The Level 5 accident dumped radioactive contamination across Europe and it is thought that traces of isotope iodine-131 may have caused several hundred cancer diagnoses.—
Kurt Snibbe,
Oc Register,
25 Apr. 2026
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Next to it was one of the vast open spaces where the city of Ottawa carted and dumped the snow removed from city streets—a vast mountain range of gray-white that survived into the heat of early summer.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Apr. 2026
Verb
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And, while most people don't regularly watch VHS tapes anymore, discarding tapes with family memories on them might leave you with some regret.—
Alexandra Kelly,
Martha Stewart,
26 Apr. 2026
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One thing that the Loverboy founder discarded was a fellow cast member leaking it, as phones have to be tucked away behind a pillow.—
Armando Tinoco,
Deadline,
24 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The young mallards were spotted swimming at the bottom of a gutter, 3 feet below a street on the outskirts of Chester, England, on Wednesday, April 22.—
Gina Kalsi,
PEOPLE,
23 Apr. 2026
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Preservationists, the town and the property owner appear to have been at a stalemate since 2018, and walls are now covered in invasive vines, windows are broken out, gutters are dangling and paint has peeled off windowsills.—
Don Stacom,
Hartford Courant,
20 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Then Cash made another surprising move by leaving Vilade in to hit against Gaddis rather than pinch-hitting lefty Jake Fraley, and that also paid off when Vilade delivered an RBI single up the middle.—
Marc Topkin,
The Orlando Sentinel,
28 Apr. 2026
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The country’s labor market didn’t come to a standstill, as was the case in other countries in the region such as the United Arab Emirates where the vast majority of workers are migrants who tried to leave, but for Rozen, something new and troubling was laid bare.—
Theia Chatelle,
Sun Sentinel,
27 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Policy for transporting firearms Amtrak requires firearms on its trains to be declared, unloaded, secured in a hard case and to meet certain size and weight requirements.—
Claudia Lauer,
Chicago Tribune,
29 Apr. 2026
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Jerusalem — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Israel of knowingly allowing grain stolen by Russia to be unloaded at Israeli ports, threatening to impose sanctions on anyone involved in the shipments, which Kyiv says have continued despite multiple appeals to Israeli officials.—
Tal Shalev,
CNN Money,
28 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The reserve features high, broken cliffs and deep ravines on headlands overlooking the ocean.—
Kurt Snibbe,
Oc Register,
24 Apr. 2026
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When camping in an open environment, select a campsite in a valley, ravine, or low region.—
KANSAS CITY STAR WEATHER BOT,
Kansas City Star,
24 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Educators were fired for making insensitive comments about him on their personal social-media accounts; a firefighter in Toledo lost his job for posting a derisive eulogy on Facebook; various airline employees were suspended for disparaging Kirk online.—
Brady Brickner-Wood,
New Yorker,
29 Apr. 2026
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Gray added that both players agreed to lose the game in exchange for $10,000 to $15,000 in payments each.—
Scott Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
29 Apr. 2026
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“Ditch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ditch. Accessed 1 May. 2026.
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