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ditch

verb

To discard or abandon.

  • Once the sun came out we ditched our rain-gear and started a campfire.
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The word "ditch" is a correct and usable word in written English. You can use it to refer to a long and narrow hole dug for drainage or for a waterway, or as a verb meaning to intentionally avoid or abandon something. Example sentence: We decided to ditch the plans for a pool and instead use the extra money to build a gazebo.

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David Cameron will doubtless depart from his political career next month with the bare minimum of a few lucrative company directorships and a kiss-and-tell book deal, so long as that police horse, Raisa and the lamb he cuddled at Easter can be persuaded to ditch their own competing publications, both currently being ghostwritten from audiotapes by the Financial Times's Ben Thompson.

If a body was taken into a den, or even if it lay in a ditch, the tag would be undetectable.

Microsoft hopes Windows 10 will bring users back and entice businesses to ditch the four-year-old Windows 7, seven-year-old Windows Vista and the now-discontinued 13-year-old Windows XP.

If Missouri or any other American state with similar conflicts – racial, religious, political, whatever – have any hope of healing, it lies with those who are serious and sturdy enough to ditch their petrified opinions, to embrace complexity and to absorb facts that make them uneasy.

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Despite the impressive finishing, the game lacked finesse for long spells and McCormack almost capitalised on slack Wigan defending for a second time after latching on to a cross-field pass from Michael Turner, only for the striker to be halted by a desperate last-ditch slide from Emmerson Boyce.

Instead, Grant supplied a terrific last-ditch tackle on Doran, 18 yards from goal.

Clegg sought to press home the case for higher tuition fees today by insisting the plans will make universities "more effective engines of social mobility" and that the policy will "stand the test of time", as he embarked on a last-ditch offensive to dispel "unhelpful myths", notably that the new funding system will worsen social mobility.

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