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Meaning
Verb
●
To
cut down
or reduce.
To
terminate
the
employment
of a
worker
to reduce the
size
of a
workforce
; to make redundant.
●
To
confine
; to
limit
; to restrict.
●
In Military:
To
furnish
with a
retrenchment
(a
defensive
work within a fortification).
●
To
abridge
; to curtail.
●
To
take up
a new
defensive
position.
●
To
live
less
expensively
; to economize.
●
To
dig
or
redig
a
trench
where one already exists.
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Reconsolidate
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Rhymes
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Bench
Wench
Tench
Drench
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Trench
French
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Clench
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Stench
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