verb
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(usually followed by upon) To invade, especially with regard to the rights or the exclusive authority of another; to encroach.
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(infantry) To excavate an elongated pit for protection of soldiers and or equipment, usually perpendicular to the line of sight toward the enemy.
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To excavate an elongated and often narrow pit.
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To have direction; to aim or tend.
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To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, etc.
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To cut furrows or ditches in.
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to trench land for the purpose of draining it
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To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next.
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to trench a garden for certain crops