0 past simple and past participle of ditch
1 to get rid of something or someone that is no longer wanted:
2 to land an aircraft in water in an emergency
If the small squarish enclosure represents a castle, what does the rectangular ditched enclosure to the south represent?
The settlement is a ditched enclosure set within an already established field system.
Thus, the street cleaners' slogan constitutes an appeal: not reducing the number of ditched cans imperils the event's future.
In some cases, direct evidence such as the presence of ditched fields confirms this.
We all know that some people are ditched out of hospital and suffer because the necessary support services are lacking.
I ditched it in that year when rearmament started once again.
Pledges that the private sector would shoulder the cost of cleaning up the power stations after privatisation have been quietly and comprehensively ditched.
Many of the fashionable shibboleths of two or three years ago have been utterly and completely ditched.
