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Definition of Trench warfare
1. Noun. 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"
2. Noun. 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"
Definition of Trench warfare
1. Noun. Warfare in which opposing sides occupy trenches and repeatedly fire at one another; usually involving high casualty rates over a long period of time. ¹
2. Noun. (uncountable by extension euphemistic) Fighting of any sort which offers no hope of ending soon. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
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