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trench warfare   (TTS Sound)

The noun trench warfare has 2 senses

• trench warfare -- (a struggle (usually prolonged) between competing entities in which neither side is able to win; "the hope that his superior campaigning skills would make a difference evaporated in the realization that electioneering had become a form of trench warfare")


• trench warfare -- (a type of armed combat in which the opposing troops fight from trenches that face each other; "instead of the war ending quickly, it became bogged down in trench warfare")