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say it: dich
ditch is a verb and noun meaning "forsake". It carries 8 recorded senses.
sever all ties with, usually unceremoniously or irresponsibly
“The company dumped him after many years of service”
“She dumped her boyfriend when she fell in love with a rich man”
a long narrow excavation in the earth
any small natural waterway
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for ditch come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.