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retrench

RETRENCH', v.t.

1. To cut off; to pare away.

And thy exuberant parts retrench.

2. To lessen; to abridge; to curtail; as, to retrench superfluities or expenses.

3. To confine; to limit. [Not proper.]

RETRENCH', v.i. To live at less expense. It is more reputable to retrench than to live embarrassed.



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RETRENCH', v.t.

1. To cut off; to pare away.

And thy exuberant parts retrench.

2. To lessen; to abridge; to curtail; as, to retrench superfluities or expenses.

3. To confine; to limit. [Not proper.]

RETRENCH', v.i. To live at less expense. It is more reputable to retrench than to live embarrassed.


RE-TRENCH', v.i.

To live at less expense. It is more reputable to retrench than to live embarrassed.


RE-TRENCH', v.t. [Fr. retrancher; re and trancher, to cut; It. trincea, a trench; trincerare, to intrench; trinciare, to carve; W. trycu, to cut.]

  1. To cut off; to pare away. And thy exuberant parts retrench. – Denham.
  2. To lessen; to abridge; to curtail; as, to retrench superfluities or expenses. – Atterbury.
  3. To confine; to limit. [Not proper.] – Addison.

Re*trench"
  1. To cut off; to pare away.

    Thy exuberant parts retrench. Denham.

  2. To cause or suffer retrenchment; specifically, to cut down living expenses; as, it is more reputable to retrench than to live embarrassed.
  3. To lessen; to abridge; to curtail; as, to retrench superfluities or expenses.

    But this thy glory shall be soon retrenched. Milton.

  4. To confine; to limit; to restrict.

    Addison.

    These figures, ought they then to receive a retrenched interpretation? I. Taylor.

  5. To furnish with a retrenchment; as, to retrench bastions.

    Syn. -- To lesen; diminish; curtail; abridge.

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Retrench

RETRENCH', verb transitive

1. To cut off; to pare away.

And thy exuberant parts retrench

2. To lessen; to abridge; to curtail; as, to retrench superfluities or expenses.

3. To confine; to limit. [Not proper.]

RETRENCH', verb intransitive To live at less expense. It is more reputable to retrench than to live embarrassed.

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3. In the United States and the West Indies, a cultivated estate; a farm. In the United States, this word is applied to an estate, a tract of land occupied and cultivated, in those states only where the labor is performed by slaves,and where the land is more or less appropriated to the culture of tobacco, rice, indigo and cotton, that is, from Maryland to Georgia inclusive, on the Atlantic, and in the western states where the land is appropriated to the same articles or to the culture of the sugar cane. From Maryland, northward and eastward,estates in land are called farms.

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