[{"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["Fortification.a long, narrow excavation in the ground, the earth from which is thrown up in front to serve as a shelter from enemy fire or attack.", "trenches,a system of such excavations, with their embankments, etc.", "a deep furrow, ditch, or cut.", "Oceanography.a long, steep-sided, narrow depression in the ocean floor."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to surround or fortify with trenches; entrench .", "to cut a trench in.", "to set or place in a trench.", "to form (a furrow, ditch, etc.) by cutting into or through something.", "to make a cut in; cut into; carve."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used without object)", "List Items": ["to dig a trench."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb phrase", "List Items": ["to encroach or infringe on.to come close to; verge on:His remarks were trenching on poor taste.", "to encroach or infringe on.", "to come close to; verge on:His remarks were trenching on poor taste."]}, {"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["Richard Chen·e·vix[shen, -, uh, -vee],1807–86,English clergyman and scholar, born in Ireland."]}]