TRENCHING Synonyms

• turn up, loosen, or remove earth

• recover through digging

• find by digging in the ground

• form by hollowing

• remove the inner part or the core of

• relatively deep or strong; affecting one deeply

• having great spatial extension or penetration downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or laterally or outward from a center; sometimes used in combination

• the central and most intense or profound part

• a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor

• literary term for an ocean

• to a great depth; far down or in

• to an advanced time

• to a great distance

• marked by depth of thinking

• very distant in time or space

• intense or extreme

• having or denoting a low vocal or instrumental range

• strong; intense

• relatively thick from top to bottom

• extending relatively far inward

• (of darkness) densely dark

• large in quantity or size

• with head or back bent low

• of an obscure nature

• difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge

• exhibiting great cunning usually with secrecy

• a long narrow excavation in the earth

• any small natural waterway

• forsake

• throw away

• sever all ties with, usually unceremoniously or irresponsibly

• make an emergency landing on water

• crash or crash-land

• cut a trench in, as for drainage

• advance beyond the usual limit

• impinge or infringe upon

• fix firmly or securely

• impinge or infringe upon

• occupy a trench or secured area

• impinge or infringe upon

• advance beyond the usual limit

• a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor