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What is the adjective for trenchwork?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb trench which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

trenchant
  1. (obsolete) Fitted to trench or cut; gutting; sharp.
  2. (figuratively) Keen; biting; vigorously effective and articulate; severe.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. cutting, keen, sharp, pointed, incisive, penetrating, acute, biting, scathing, strong, vigorous, acid, forceful, pungent, caustic, emphatic, tart, acerbic, astringent, mordant, piercing, sarcastic, clear, driving, forthright, telling, acidulous, blunt, crisp, distinct, effective, explicit, powerful, severe, stinging, blistering, devastating, edgy, fierce, hurtful, mordacious, potent, savage, searing, unequivocal, vitriolic, withering, acerb, critical, crushing … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “A quiet and generally even-tempered man, he could be, and was, trenchant in his criticisms as the occasion demanded.”
      “The critic made a trenchant argument for the movie's awfulness.”
      “Was it not storied as the good trenchant blade of brave Bayard, that other chevalier?”
trencherlike
  1. Resembling or characteristic of a trencher (long plate).
trenchlike
  1. Resembling or characteristic of a trench.
trenchand
  1. Obsolete form of trenchant.
trenchless
  1. Without trenches.
trenched
  1. simple past tense and past participle of trench
  2. Synonyms:
      3. excavated, dug, burrowed, tunnelled, tunneled, mined, bored, bore, shoveled, shovelled, scooped, delved, dalf, dolven, cut, quarried, gouged, hollowed, spaded, spade, scraped, grubbed, sank, sunk, sunken, emptied, dug out, hollowed out, scooped out, cut out, dug up, opened up, channelled, channeled, pitted, ditched, cut through, gouged out, exposed, opened, grooved, furrowed, gorged, drained, dented, rutted, corrugated, dished, rabbeted, indented … more
trenching
  1. present participle of trench
  2. Synonyms:
      3. excavating, digging, burrowing, tunnelling, tunneling, mining, boring, shoveling, shovelling, scooping, delving, cutting, quarrying, gouging, hollowing, spading, scraping, grubbing, sinking, emptying, digging out, hollowing out, scooping out, cutting out, digging up, opening up, channeling, channelling, pitting, ditching, gouging out, opening, exposing, cutting through, furrowing, gorging, grooving, notching, corrugating, dishing, indenting, rabbeting, denting, rutting, carving out, draining, digging a ditch in, providing with ditches, dredging, scraping out … more
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