noun, verb
noun a long channel dug at the side of a field or road, to hold or take away water:
The car left the road and ended up in a ditch.
IDIOMS see LASTadj.
Part of speech: verb
1 [VN] (informal) to get rid of sth/sb because you no longer want or need it/them:
The new road building programme has been ditched. * He ditched his girlfriend.
2 [VN, V] if a pilot ditches an aircraft, or if it ditches, it lands in the sea in an emergency
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for ditch is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is ditch a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, ditch is tagged as verb.
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