TRENCH WARFARE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A type of armed combat in which the opposing troops fight from trenches that face each other

Example:

instead of the war ending quickly, it became bogged down in trench warfare

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("trench warfare" is a kind of...):

armed combat; combat (an engagement fought between two military forces)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A struggle (usually prolonged) between competing entities in which neither side is able to win

Example:

the hope that his superior campaigning skills would make a difference evaporated in the realization that electioneering had become a form of trench warfare