trench warfare, n.
a type of armed combat in which the opposing troops fight from trenches that face each other
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trench warfare
sample sentences
"instead of the war ending quickly, it became bogged down in trench warfare"
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a struggle (usually prolonged) between competing entities in which neither side is able to win
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trench warfare
sample sentences
"the hope that his superior campaigning skills would make a difference evaporated in the realization that electioneering had become a form of trench warfare"
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