Crossword-Solution: DITCH 5 letters, 143 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Word Word Type Definition
Ditch n. A trench made in the earth by digging, particularly a trench
for draining wet land, for guarding or fencing inclosures, or for
preventing an approach to a town or fortress. In the latter sense, it
is called also a moat or a fosse.
Ditch n. Any long, narrow receptacle for water on the surface of the
earth.
Ditch v. t. To dig a ditch or ditches in; to drain by a ditch or
ditches; as, to ditch moist land.
Ditch v. t. To surround with a ditch.
Ditch v. t. To throw into a ditch; as, the engine was ditched and
turned on its side.
Ditch v. i. To dig a ditch or ditches.

We have 143 clues for the answer “DITCH”

Clue Answers
A long trench dug in the ground 1 answer
Abandon, informally 1 answer
BRING aircraft down into sea in emergency (RAF sl.) 1 answer
BRING down into sea in emergency (RAF sl.) 1 answer
Blow off, as a class 1 answer
Ding-dong ___ (childish prank) 1 answer
Discard in a hurry 1 answer
Discard, slangily 1 answer
Drainage passage 1 answer
Drainage trench 1 answer
Draining creation 1 answer
Dug water channel 1 answer
ENGLISH Channel (RAF sl.) 1 answer
End place for many a car accident 1 answer
Excavated channel 1 answer
Foxhole, basically 1 answer
Get rid of, in slang 1 answer
Get rid of: Slang. 1 answer
Get rid of; channel 1 answer
Irrigation trench 1 answer
Last resort, sometimes 1 answer
Last-___ effort 1 answer
Leave behind, as a "friend" 1 answer
Leave behind, as one's "friends" might 1 answer
Leave behind, informally 1 answer
Leave in the lurch, maybe 1 answer
Long trough 1 answer
Make an emergency landing 1 answer
Moat without the water 1 answer
Moat without water 1 answer
Moats kin 1 answer
NORTH Sea channel (R.A.F. sl.) 1 answer
Roadside depression 1 answer
Roadside trench 1 answer
Skip, as class 1 answer
Toss aside 1 answer
Where a car may end up after an accident 1 answer
make an emergency landing on water 1 answer
narrow channel dug in the earth for drainage or irrigation 1 answer
Quit flying 2 answers
Get rid of, informally 2 answers
Skip class 2 answers
Leave in a lurch 2 answers
Dike 2 answers
Discard unceremoniously 2 answers
Drainage channel 2 answers
Intentionally lose 2 answers
Irrigation channel 2 answers
LONG excavation 3 answers
LONG narrow excavation 3 answers
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Sentences with DITCH (5)

The Goat, envying the Ass on account of his greater abundance of food, said, “How shamefully you are treated: at one time grinding in the mill, and at another carrying heavy burdens;” and he further advised him to pretend to be epileptic and fall into a ditch and so obtain rest.
Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000
The dry leaves in the ditch simmered and boiled in the same breezes, a tongue of air occasionally ferreting out a few, and sending them spinning across the grass.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
Fortunately—as is usual in this part of France—the footpath was bordered by a low, rough hedge, beyond which was a dry ditch, filled with coarse grass.
The Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness Orczy 1993
The travellers crossed the ditch upon a drawbridge of only two planks breadth, the narrowness of which was matched with the straitness of the postern, and with a little wicket in the exterior palisade, which gave access to the forest.
Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1993
After her dance she withdrew from the dialogue and retreated to the ditch wall back of Philly’s burrow, where she sat singing “The Rising of the Moon” and making a wreath of primroses for her donkey.
Alexander’s Bridge and The Barrel Organ Willa Cather and Alfred Noyes 1993

Quotes with DITCH (3)

Did you get notes for me?""No", Ronan replied," I thought you were dead in a ditch.
Maggie Stiefvater The Raven Boys
Man’s mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not. His body is given to him, its sustenance is not. His mind is given to him, its content is not. To remain alive, he must act, and before he can act he must know the nature and purpose of his action. He cannot obtain his food without a knowledge of food and of the way to obtain it. He cannot dig a ditch — or build a cyclotron — without a knowledge of his aim and of the means to achieve it. To remai…
Ayn Rand
Oh,' the priest said, 'that's another thing altogether - God is love. I don't say the heart doesn't feel a taste of it, but what a taste. The smallest glass of love mixed with a pint pot of ditch-water. We wouldn't recognize that love. It might even look like hate. It would be enough to scare us - God's love. It set fire to a bush in the desert, didn't it, and smashed open graves and set the dead walking in the dark. Oh, a man like me would run a mile to get away if he felt that love around.
Graham Greene The Power and the Glory
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Appears in: Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 85 times in crossword archives (1954–2025).