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trench warfare
noun
- combat in which each side occupies a system of protective trenches.
trench warfare
noun
- a type of warfare in which opposing armies face each other in entrenched positions
trench warfare
- Warfare marked by slow wearing down of the opposing forces and piecemeal gains at heavy cost. The term applies especially to World War I .
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Word History and Origins
Origin of trench warfare1
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Example Sentences
Early airpower theorists were not only repelled by trench warfare.
There was a lot of trench warfare between the Princesses Margaret and Michael, too.
Illinois is a key front in a GOP contest that has become political trench warfare.
The problem with the proportional system's chronic trench warfare this year is that it prolongs the misery of a lackluster field.
There was and will never be another war like the Great War: hand-to-hand combat, trench warfare.
Most people are rather ill after the trench warfare of the last two days.
But the trench warfare has rooted them to the spot for a weary time.
A shallow psychology (as the author points out), especially in these days of trench warfare!
She merely established another line of trench warfare among the high mountains of her picturesque north-eastern frontier.
The war on the Western front settled down to trench warfare.
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