ditches
Leaves someone behind
Ditches are long narrow channels dug in the ground, typically for drainage or irrigation.
A roadside ditch catches runoff; a drainage ditch carries water away from fields.
To ditch something is to abandon or discard it: We ditched the car and ran, She ditched class, He ditched his girlfriend.
In aviation, to ditch is to make an emergency landing on water.
Long narrow excavation
- channelPassage for transmission
- drainageLiquid removal system
- culvertTunnel for water passage
- furrowNarrow trench in earth
gutter · moat · irrigation · embankment · roadside · runoff · dug · shallow
Things thrown away
- dumpsDisposes of carelessly
- leavesTree's photosynthetic organs
- dropsDescends or releases
- jettisonsDeliberately throws away
abandons · scraps · tosses · disposes · rejects · sheds · chucks · junks
Evades with quick movement
- avoidsDeliberately stays away from
- escapesActs of fleeing
- evadesAvoids by cunning
- skipsOmits or hops lightly
eludes · sidesteps · shakes off · loses · outmaneuvers · slips away · sheds · outruns
Serious sudden danger
- water landingEmergency descent onto water
- splashdownSpacecraft's water landing
- forced landingUnscheduled aircraft touchdown
- aircraftAirborne transportation vehicle
pilot · ocean · survival · controlled crash · fuselage · coast guard · rescue · aviation
trench
Long narrow excavation
furrow · gutter · moat · irrigation · embankment · roadside · runoff · dug · shallow · waterway
discards
Things thrown away
jettisons · abandons · scraps · tosses · disposes · rejects · sheds · chucks · junks · deserts
dodges
Evades with quick movement
skips · eludes · sidesteps · shakes off · loses · outmaneuvers · slips away · sheds · outruns · throws off
emergency
Serious sudden danger
- water landingEmergency descent onto water
- splashdownSpacecraft's water landing
- forced landingUnscheduled aircraft touchdown
aircraft · pilot · ocean · survival · controlled crash · fuselage · coast guard · rescue · aviation · belly landing
- Water Engineeringdams, levees, canals, aqueducts, spillways
- British PrehistoryStonehenge, stone circles, henges, hill forts, burial mounds
- rural road featurespotholes, dust, ruts, washboard, gravel
- salt marshescordgrass, salt marsh, glasswort, mud flats, mudflats
- Fenlandsfenland, peat, peat bogs, marshland, sluices
- poldersdikes, levees, pumping stations, drainage canals, sluices
ditcheswells
Excavated water sources
reservoirs · ponds · cisterns · tanks · basins
- last ditchFinal desperate attempt
- last-ditch effortFinal attempt before failure
- ditch diggerOne who excavates channels
- ding-dong ditchRing doorbell, then hide
- ding-dong ditchingPrank ringing then hiding
- ding dong ditchPranking by ringing doorbells
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