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trench

verb

To invade, especially with regard to the rights or the exclusive authority of another; to encroach.

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The word "trench" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe either a type of deep ditch (usually for military purposes) or a deep furrow or groove in the ground (usually made by plowing). Example sentence: The farmer dug a trench to irrigate his crops.

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My friend Ahmed Nadeem was with me in the trench when he got a bullet in his head from a sniper.

Model Karlie Kloss – wearing oversized trench, chunky turtleneck and wide legged trousers – was a vision in winter white, albeit one that would require a lot of drycleaning.

There were the kind of severe wounds usually only seen in wartime along with trench foot and other skin infections thought left behind in the 19th century.

He died after contracting trench foot at Arras, at the age of 28, having made 50 first-class appearances.

"We constructed a replica WWI trench and we built it as per the 1916 army manual," he says.

Suddenly it hit me: he was that nice bloke who dug a trench in my garden for £75 last summer.

As well as more well-known poets such as Owen and Sassoon it includes moving works by civilian and women poets, plus music hall and trench songs.

Failure could be costly, plunging Europe into bitter recrimination and trench warfare just when it needs it least.

For nine hours, I was in the trench with his body during airstrikes and tank shelling.

"They put us in prison and we've wound up in some sort of trench," he said.

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David Crane in the Spectator, too, thought striking the notion that the 20th century, which wiped out "perhaps 50 million to 100 million in two world wars", not to mention the gulag, "the Cultural revolution, civil wars, government-orchestrated-famine,… trench-stewed pandemics and any number of genocides", was, "in fact, the safest there has ever been".

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