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A negative space dug on purpose, equally good at draining fields and ending relationships.
means To abandon, discard, or get rid of someone or something abruptly — or, as a noun, a long narrow channel dug into the ground for drainage.
from From Old English 'dīc,' meaning a trench or dug-out channel — the same root that, oddly enough, also gave us 'dike,' since digging a ditch piles up an embankment beside it (one word ended up meaning the hole, the other the wall). The figurative sense of 'ditch' as 'to throw away' or 'abandon' came much later, from the image of dumping something into a roadside ditch — and pilots picked it up in the 20th century for crash-landing a plane in water.
- verb life
- To ditch is to abandon fast and guiltlessly
- emergency landing
- Pilots ditch planes into water as a last resort
- ancient infrastructure
- Roman roads were flanked by drainage ditches
- last ditch
- The final defensive trench before total defeat
- ecology
- Ditches host frogs, newts, and rare wetland plants
king's ditch cambridge — medieval waterway that once surrounded cambridge, england, built in the 13th century
miami canal ohio — historic 1825 canal in ohio connecting cincinnati to the great miami river
oregon trail water ditches — irrigation ditches dug by settlers along the oregon trail in the 1840s-1860s