Clues for the word "DITCH"
We've had 78 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 145 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Your Life Choices crossword on October 17, 2025.
Definition of 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.
- n. - Any long, narrow receptacle for water on the surface of the earth.
- v. t. - To dig a ditch or ditches in; to drain by a ditch or ditches; as, to ditch moist land.
- v. t. - To surround with a ditch.
- v. t. - To throw into a ditch; as, the engine was ditched and turned on its side.
- v. i. - To dig a ditch or ditches.
Referring Clues
- You can dig it
- Abandon
- Deep-six
- Get rid of
- Where a car may end up after an accident
- Foxhole, basically
- Make an emergency landing
- End place for many a car accident
- Moat
- Throw out
- Small waterway
- Dump
- Jettison
- Trench
- Play hooky
- Leave in the lurch
- Lose on purpose
- Gully
- Discard
- Discard unceremoniously
- Drainage trench
- Leave behind, informally
- Get rid of, in slang
- Roadside trench
- Discard in a hurry
- Moats kin
- Scrap
- Roadside depression
- Fosse
- Draining creation
- Leave high and dry
- Intentionally lose
- Long trough
- Drainage passage
- Skip class
- Drainage channel
- Dump (informal)
- Day's getting long in desert
- Throw away - trench
- Dump at the roadside?
- End one's relationship with dyke
- Abandon at the roadside
- Deep irritation leads to depression?
- Excavated channel
- Get rid of 500 yen
- Dump the wife, if I were you
- Abandon land in the sea
- 11 at the end of the bowling green
- Desert watercourse
- Throw away 500 yen
- Axe tip from Douglas pine
- Dump in Channel
- Drop it in front of Dominican church
- Get rid of land on sea
- Desert channel
- Depression used for drainage
- Moat without the water
- Get rid of many a restless desire
- There's a Red one in W. central England, by the way
- Duke has desire for drainage channel
- Skip, as class
- Rid oneself of many a desire
- The last to be involved in a desperate fight?
- Narrow channel
- Dump at the wayside
- Abandon, informally
- Dump by the wayside
- Toss aside
- Abandon by the roadside
- Moat without water
- Leave behind
- Leave in the lurch, maybe
- Dump at the roadside?
- Last-___ effort
- Get rid of, informally
- Deep irritation leads to depression?
- Ding-dong ___
- There's a Red one in central England, by the way
Last Seen In
- Your Life Choices - October 17, 2025
- Daily Quick - September 18, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 09, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - June 10, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - May 20, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - May 07, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 30, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - February 22, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - January 06, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - January 03, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 23, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - December 03, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 21, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - October 03, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - September 16, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 04, 2024
- Your Life Choices - August 27, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - August 05, 2024
- Daily Quick - July 19, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - July 09, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - July 09, 2024
- New York Times - June 30, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - June 19, 2024
- LA Times - June 12, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - May 31, 2024
- Daily Quick - May 28, 2024
- Daily American - April 18, 2024
- Daily Quick - February 19, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - January 31, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 30, 2023
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