detrench

verb

1. To cut off or slice; to sever.“That I as well may furnish good mens needs / With bleſſings, as detrench th'abuſed ſtore / Of thankles caytiffes; crowne true vertues deeds / With honour, and on vice my vengeance poure.”
2. To render something that was entrenched less thoroughly established.“They found themselves caught up in a mesh of arguments about entrenching, re-entrenching and detrenching, with all the relevant permutations and combinations.”
3. To dig out and remove from a trench.“In some cases these cables still become damaged and this results in lengths of cable having to be detrenched.”
4. To force (an army) out of trenches, or to be so forced out.“Verey lights, no longer needed by the detrenched army, soared with them, descending in wavy pools of radiance.”