ditch
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a long narrow excavation in the earth
Types & categories
- excavation hypernym
- drainage ditch hyponym
- irrigation ditch hyponym
- sunk fence hyponym
- trench hyponym
- trench hyponym
Related & opposite
- trench derivation
Sense 2 verb
forsake
ditch a lover
Types & categories
- desert hypernym
Sense 3 noun
any small natural waterway
Types & categories
- waterway hypernym
Related & opposite
- trench derivation
Sense 4 verb
throw away
Chuck these old notes
Types & categories
- abandon hypernym
Related & opposite
- jargon domain usage
Sense 5 verb
sever all ties with, usually unceremoniously or irresponsibly
The company dumped him after many years of service
Types & categories
- get rid of hypernym
Sense 6 verb
make an emergency landing on water
Types & categories
- crash land hypernym
Related & opposite
- air travel domain topic
Sense 7 verb
crash or crash-land
ditch a car
Types & categories
- crash hypernym
Sense 8 verb
cut a trench in, as for drainage
ditch the land to drain it
Types & categories
- hollow hypernym
Related & opposite
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | trench |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | excavation |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | drainage ditch |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | irrigation ditch |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | sunk fence |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | trench |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | trench |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | desert |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | trench |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | waterway |
| 4 | domain usage | Related & opposite | jargon |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | abandon |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | get rid of |
| 6 | domain topic | Related & opposite | air travel |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | crash land |
| 7 | hypernym | Types & categories | crash |
| 8 | derivation | Related & opposite | ditch |
| 8 | derivation | Related & opposite | trench |
| 8 | derivation | Related & opposite | ditch |
| 8 | derivation | Related & opposite | trencher |
| 8 | hypernym | Types & categories | hollow |