Retrenches vs Retrenched - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between retrenches and retrenched

is that retrenches is third-person singular of retrench while retrenched is past tense of retrench.

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(retrench)

(etyl) retrenchier, (etyl) retrancher; see (etyl) , and English trench.

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To cut down or reduce.

* Denham

Thy exuberant parts retrench .

To abridge; to curtail.

* Milton

But this thy glory shall be soon retrenched .

To confine; to limit; to restrict.

(Addison)

* I. Taylor

These figures, ought they then to receive a retrenched interpretation?

To furnish with a retrenchment (defensive work within a fortification).

to retrench bastions

To take up a new defensive position.

We must retrench and try to hold on long enough for products in development to reach the market or we will be out of business.

*2012 , The Economist, Private Equity: Keep Calm and Carry On

International firms could decide it is not cost-effective to keep open their other European offices and retrench to London.