ditch

1. 1.

   a long narrow excavation in the earth

   Broaderexcavation

   Narrowerdrainage ditchirrigation ditchsunk fencetrench
2. 2.

   any small natural waterway

   Broaderwaterway

Other forms of ditch

plural

ditches·

past tense

ditched·

present participle

ditching·

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.

Questions about ditch

What does ditch mean?

ditch means "forsake". That is the primary sense; the word has 8 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ditch?

ditch has 1 syllable: ditch. In IPA it is /ˈdɪtʃ/.

What is another word for ditch?

Close synonyms include chuck, dump, trench. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ditch a common word?

ditch is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.