ditch vs peel away

ditch

verb
  • To discard or abandon. 

  • To dig ditches around. 

  • To dig ditches. 

  • To throw into a ditch. 

  • To deliberately not attend classes; to play hookey. 

  • To deliberately crash-land an airplane on water. 

noun
  • A trench; a long, shallow indentation, as for irrigation or drainage. 

  • A raised bank of earth and the hedgerow on top. 

peel away

verb
  • To take away from something else. 

  • To burn out while accelerating and rapidly depart; to peel off, peel out. 

  • To become separate through peeling. 

  • To separate off from the main body; to move off to one side (as in troop movements on a parade ground or in an organized retreat, or columns in a procession). 

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