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Ditch \Ditch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Ditched}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Ditching}.]
1. To dig a ditch or ditches in; to drain by a ditch or
ditches; as, to ditch moist land.
2. To surround with a ditch. --Shak.
3. To throw into a ditch; as, the engine was ditched and
turned on its side.
- And - without ditching all of Mortier's innovations - it would give Salzburg the chance to crown a new king in the Karajan mould.
- If General Colin Powell, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and Gulf war hero, ran with Mr Bush it might be easy to argue that ditching Mr Quayle was not an act of desperation.
- Although all ministers stressed that their decision was based solely on Israel's strategic and economic interests, there had been no missing the Reagan administration's overt attempts to sway the decision in favor of ditching the Lavi.
- But the invitation, issued by Mr Clinton at the cost of ditching some old friends and eating some humble pie, is at least on the table.
- Currently, there isn't an escape mechanism on the shuttle and an ocean ditching likely would kill all crew members.
- Leftists, already soundly defeated in a bid to oust Labor leader Neil Kinnock, accused him of ditching cherished socialist principles after three successive election defeats by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
- It is the scrapping of whole layers of management by numerous employers, in business at any rate, and the ditching of in-house staff furnishing less than central services in favour of buying them in when needed from external concerns.