ditched

past tense of ditch

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for ditched
Verb
  • These chemicals also threaten the water when products containing them are dumped onto the ground or into lakes and rivers.
    Mark Davis, Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2025
  • That’s when a series of storms dumped a significant amount of rain in Northern California, lifting water levels across the region.
    Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado, Sacramento Bee, 13 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • All affected products should be discarded or returned to the place of purchase.
    David Faris, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Apr. 2025
  • Malone entered his postgame news conference minutes later, crumpled up a copy of the box score and discarded it in the nearest trash can.
    Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 11 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • But sometimes lost in that analysis is that the bigger factor may have been a lack of enthusiasm for Harris.
    Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Apr. 2025
  • The helicopter lost power, and the pilot made an emergency landing.
    Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 11 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • They were abandoned in 1959 when outpaced by technology.
    Michael Peregrine, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2025
  • In April 2023, Blue Island leveled another complaint against the nonprofit asking a judge to declare the property in violation of the city’s building codes, dangerous, unsafe and abandoned, court records show.
    Samantha Moilanen, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2025
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“Ditched.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ditched. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.

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