TRENCH WARFARE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does trench warfare mean? 

• TRENCH WARFARE (noun)
  The noun TRENCH WARFARE has 2 senses:

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

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

  Familiarity information: TRENCH WARFARE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRENCH WARFARE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context 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

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

war; warfare (an active struggle between competing entities)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

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

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

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