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Ditched

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.

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ditched

vb. (en-past of: ditch)

Usage examples of "ditched".

It completely ignored, almost totally forgot, its own interpersonal dimension, the dimension of dialogical and intersubjective communication, in favor of the merely monological and objectifying mode, which is also a very hyperagentic mode, in that the communions of inter subjectivity are ditched in favor of the monologues of individual power and agency.

Shorty, the uniformed cop we had ditched on Arguello Boulevard, brought up the rear.

Who scratched the girl's body up in a fit of jealous rage because she had ditched him for a better prospect?

I've got grunts out checking a ten-block area to see if he ditched it.

The focus on size is a remnant of science's trying to ape the study of a bunch of moving rockscan't deny size thereand this is part of the flatland reductionism that collapsed the Kosmos into the cosmos, ditched quality in favor of quantity, and made some people think that "bigger is better" is actually a value system around which to build a life.

The vertical dimension of depth/height was ditched in favor of a horizontal expansion, an emphasis not on depth but on spanand the standard God of the modern Western world was set.

The vertical and horizontal holarchy of depth and span was ditched in favor of merely a horizontal holarchy of span alone.

This is why, in shorthand, I refer to this, in the text, as "the vertical and horizontal holarchy of depth and span was ditched in favor of merely a horizontal holarchy of span alone.

The net effect was that the Great Chain was tipped on its side, so to speakan infinite within and beyond was ditched in favor of an infinite in front of and ahead, and the West began to scratch that itch in earnest.

The intersubjective created worldspace, which itself allows the disclosure of individuated subjects and objects, was ditched in favor a mindless staring at the end result (mistaken as a pregiven), a mindless staring at the monological objects thus disclosed.

He was always being ditched in Pittsburgh by people who did not want him with them.

When Weary was ditched, le would find somebody who was even more unpopular than himself, and he would horse around with that person for a while, pretending to be friendly.

Yesterday you led the guy following you all over Guntersville, then ditched him by making an abrupt turn across traffic, and we weren’t able to find you again until you came to work.

They had ditched the van several blocks away from the hotel, and walked the rest of the way.

That just means he ditched the second weapon, but without it we can’t prove squat.