Synonyms of the word

ditch

• n. A trench; a long, shallow indentation, as for irrigation or drainage.
• v. (transitive) To discard or abandon.
• v. (intransitive) To deliberately crash-land an airplane on water.
• v. (intransitive) To deliberately not attend classes; to play hookey.
• v. (intransitive) To dig ditches.
• v. (transitive) To dig ditches around.
• v. (transitive) To throw into a ditch.
• v. Alternative form of deech.
• n. Alternative form of deech.

abandon

• v. (transitive, obsolete) To subdue; to take control of.
• v. (transitive) To give up control of, to surrender or to give oneself over, or to yield to one's emotions.
• v. (transitive) To desist in doing, practicing, following, holding, or adhering to; to turn away from; to…
• v. (transitive) To leave behind; to desert as in a ship or a position, typically in response to overwhelming…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To cast out; to banish; to expel; to reject.
• v. (transitive) To no longer exercise a right, title, or interest, especially with no interest of reclaiming…
• v. (transitive) To surrender to the insurer (an insured item), so as to claim a total loss.
• n. A yielding to natural impulses or inhibitions; freedom from artificial constraint, with loss of appreciation…
• n. (obsolete) abandonment; relinquishment.
• adv. (obsolete, not comparable) Freely; entirely.

chuck

• n. (cooking) Meat from the shoulder of a cow or other animal.
• n. (mechanical engineering) A mechanical device that holds an object firmly in place, for example holding…
• n. (dialect, obsolete) A chicken, a hen.
• n. A clucking sound.
• n. (slang) A friend or close acquaintance; term of endearment.
• n. A gentle touch or tap.
• n. (informal) A casual throw.
• n. (slang) An act of vomiting.
• n. (cricket, informal) A throw, an incorrect bowling action.
• v. To make a clucking sound.
• v. To call, as a hen her chickens.
• v. To touch or tap gently.
• v. (transitive, informal) To throw, especially in a careless or inaccurate manner.
• v. (transitive, informal) To discard, to throw away.
• v. (transitive, informal) To jilt; to dump.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To vomit.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To throw; to bowl with an incorrect action.
• v. (South Africa, slang, intransitive) To leave; to depart; to bounce.
• v. (obsolete) To chuckle; to laugh.
• v. To place in a chuck, or hold by means of a chuck, as in turning; to bore or turn (a hole) in a revolving…
• n. Abbreviation of woodchuck.
• n. (Scotland) A small pebble.

crash

• n. An automobile, airplane, or other vehicle accident.
• n. A computer malfunction that is caused by faulty software, and makes the system either partially or totally…
• n. A loud sound as made for example by cymbals.
• n. A sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures).
• n. A comedown of a drug.
• n. A group of rhinoceroses.
• n. dysphoria.
• adj. quick, fast, intensive, impromptu.
• v. (transitive) To collide with something destructively, fall or come down violently.
• v. (transitive) To severely damage or destroy something by causing it to collide with something else.
• v. (transitive, slang) (via gatecrash) To attend a social event without invitation, usually with unfavorable…
• v. (transitive, management) To accelerate a project or a task or its schedule by devoting more resources…
• v. (intransitive, slang) To make or experience informal temporary living arrangements.
• v. (slang) To give, as a favor.
• v. (slang) To lie down for a long rest, sleep or nap, as from tiredness or exhaustion.
• v. (computing, software, intransitive) To terminate extraordinarily.
• v. (computing, software, transitive) To cause to terminate extraordinarily.
• v. (intransitive) To experience a period of depression and/or lethargy after a period of euphoria, as after…
• v. (transitive) To hit or strike with force.
• n. (fibre) Plain linen.

desert

• n. (usually in the plural) That which is deserved or merited; a just punishment or reward.
• n. A barren area of land or desolate terrain, especially one with little water or vegetation; a wasteland.
• n. (figuratively) Any barren place or situation.
• adj. Abandoned, deserted, or uninhabited; usually of a place.
• v. To leave (anything that depends on one's presence to survive, exist, or succeed), especially when contrary…
• v. To leave one's duty or post, especially to leave a military or naval unit without permission.

desolate

• adj. Deserted and devoid of inhabitants.
• adj. Barren and lifeless.
• adj. Made unfit for habitation or use; laid waste; neglected; destroyed.
• adj. Dismal or dreary.
• adj. Sad, forlorn and hopeless.
• v. To deprive of inhabitants.
• v. To devastate or lay waste somewhere.
• v. To abandon or forsake something. (Can we verify^{([fullurl:Wiktionary:Requests for verification/English…}
• v. To make someone sad, forlorn and hopeless.

dig

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a hole…
• v. (transitive) To get by digging; to take from the ground; often with up.
• v. (mining) To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
• v. (US, slang, dated) To work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously.
• v. (figuratively) To investigate, to research, often followed by out or up.
• v. To thrust; to poke.
• v. (volleyball) To defend against an attack hit by the opposing team by successfully passing the ball.
• n. An archeological investigation.
• n. (US, colloquial, dated) A plodding and laborious student.
• n. A thrust; a poke.
• n. (Britain, dialect, dated) A tool for digging.
• n. (volleyball) A defensive pass of the ball that has been attacked by the opposing team.
• v. (slang) To understand or show interest in.
• v. (slang) To appreciate, or like.

dump

• n. A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.; a disposal…
• n. A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
• n. That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess.
• n. (computing) An act of dumping, or its result.
• n. (computing) A formatted listing of the contents of program storage, especially when produced automatically…
• n. A storage place for supplies, especially military.
• n. An unpleasant, dirty, disreputable, or unfashionable, boring or depressing looking place.
• n. (vulgar, slang, often with the verb "take") An act of defecation; a defecating.
• n. A dull, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; low spirits; despondency; ill humor (usually plural).
• n. Absence of mind; revery.
• n. (mining) A pile of ore or rock.
• n. (obsolete) A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.
• n. (obsolete) An old kind of dance.
• n. (historical, Australia) A small coin made by punching a hole in a larger coin (called a holey dollar).
• v. (transitive) To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner.
• v. (transitive) To discard; to get rid of something one does not want anymore.
• v. (transitive) To sell below cost or very cheaply; to engage in dumping.
• v. (transitive, computing) To copy data from a system to another place or system, usually in order to archive…
• v. (transitive, computing) To output the contents of storage or a data structure, often in order to diagnose…
• v. (transitive, informal) To end a relationship with.
• v. (transitive) To knock heavily; to stump.
• v. (transitive, US) To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting…
• v. (transitive, US) To precipitate (especially snow) heavily.
• n. (Britain, archaic) A thick, ill-shapen piece.
• n. (Britain, archaic) A lead counter used in the game of chuck-farthing.

excavate

• v. (transitive) To make a hole in (something); to hollow.
• v. (transitive) To remove part of (something) by scooping or digging it out.
• v. (transitive) To uncover (something) by removing its covering.
• n. (zoology) Any member of a major grouping of unicellular eukaryotes, of the clade Excavata.

excavation

• n. (uncountable) The act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part…
• n. (countable) A cavity formed by cutting, digging, or scooping.
• n. (countable) An uncovered cutting in the earth, in distinction from a covered cutting or tunnel.
• n. (countable) The material dug out in making a channel or cavity.
• n. (uncountable) Archaeological research that unearths buildings, tombs and objects of historical value.
• n. (countable) A site where an archaeological exploration is being carried out.

forsake

• v. To abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce.

hollow

• n. A small valley between mountains.
• n. A sunken area or unfilled space in something solid; a cavity, natural or artificial.
• n. (US) A sunken area.
• n. (figuratively) A feeling of emptiness.
• v. (transitive) to make a hole in something; to excavate.
• adj. (of something solid) Having an empty space or cavity inside.
• adj. (of a sound) Distant, eerie; echoing, reverberating, as if in a hollow space; dull, muffled; often low-pitched.
• adj. (figuratively) Without substance; having no real or significant worth; meaningless.
• adj. (figuratively) Insincere, devoid of validity; specious.
• adj. concave; gaunt; sunken.
• adj. (gymnastics) pertaining to hollow body position.
• adv. (colloquial) Completely, as part of the phrase beat hollow or beat all hollow.
• v. To urge or call by shouting; to hollo.
• interj. Alternative form of hollo.

remove

• v. (transitive) To move something from one place to another, especially to take away.
• v. (transitive) To murder.
• v. (cricket, transitive) To dismiss a batsman.
• v. (transitive) To discard, set aside, especially something abstract (a thought, feeling, etc.).
• v. (intransitive, now rare) To depart, leave.
• v. (intransitive) To change one's residence; to move.
• v. To dismiss or discharge from office.
• n. The act of removing something.
• n. (archaic) Removing a dish at a meal in order to replace it with the next course, a dish thus replaced,…
• n. (Britain) (at some public schools) A division of the school, especially the form prior to last.
• n. A step or gradation (as in the phrase "at one remove").
• n. Distance in time or space; interval.
• n. (dated) The transfer of one's home or business to another place; a move.
• n. The act of resetting a horse's shoe.

trench

• n. A long, narrow ditch or hole dug in the ground.
• n. (military) A narrow excavation as used in warfare, as a cover for besieging or emplaced forces.
• n. (archaeology) A pit, usually rectangular with smooth walls and floor, excavated during an archaeological…
• n. (informal) A trench coat.
• v. (usually followed by upon) To invade, especially with regard to the rights or the exclusive authority…
• v. (military, infantry) To excavate an elongated pit for protection of soldiers and or equipment, usually…
• v. (archaeology) To excavate an elongated and often narrow pit.
• v. To have direction; to aim or tend.
• v. To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, etc.
• v. To cut furrows or ditches in.
• v. To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling…

waterway

• n. A body of water, such as a river, channel or canal, that is navigable.
• n. A conduit or watercourse, such as on the deck of a ship, to drain water.