trench warfare

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noun

combat in which each side occupies a system of protective trenches.

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Origin of trench warfare

First recorded in 1915–20

Words nearby trench warfare

trench fever, trench foot, trench knife, trench mortar, trench mouth, trench warfare, trend, trendify, trending, trendline, trendsetter

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How to use trench warfare in a sentence

Instead, deepening partisan trench warfare will only worsen fights over the basic rules of voting, undermining the shared legitimacy of elections on which democracy depends.
How Much Longer Can This Era Of Political Gridlock Last?|Lee Drutman (drutman@newamerica.org)|March 4, 2021|FiveThirtyEight
This produces a deeply polarizing and highly destructive form of partisan trench warfare that threatens to erode the very legitimacy of American democracy.
How Much Longer Can This Era Of Political Gridlock Last?|Lee Drutman (drutman@newamerica.org)|March 4, 2021|FiveThirtyEight
The priority that the regime places on cyber warfare is made clear by its recruiting.
Inside the ‘Surprisingly Great’ North Korean Hacker Hotel|Michael Daly|December 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Mired in ideological warfare, America faces her most formidable opponent yet— herself.
The Post-Brown and Garner Question: Who ‘Deserves’ to Die?|Goldie Taylor|December 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST

You don't bag something and leave it by the trench while you go back to the truck for your lunch.
The Real-Life Raiders of the Lost Ark|Alex Belth|November 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
They were making it up as they went along, and creating a new kind of warfare.
How the NSA Became a Killing Machine|Shane Harris|November 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In the opening moments of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, players are introduced to 2054 Seoul.
Kevin Spacey Stars as a Frank Underwood-like Warmonger in ‘Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare’|Alec Kubas-Meyer|November 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST
I never had to fight again except as an unwilling participant in our foreign warfare.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland|Joseph Tatlow
No word of the bombs and trench mortars I asked for six weeks ago, but the "bayonets" are coming in liberally now.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I|Ian Hamilton
I asked him if that amounted to one shell per yard and he said the whole length of the trench was less than 100 yards.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I|Ian Hamilton
It is true that they wanted the picturesque splendour of ancient warfare.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various
One of the latest uses to which asbestos has been proposed to be applied in connection with warfare is as a coating for ironclads.
Asbestos|Robert H. Jones

British Dictionary definitions for trench warfare

trench warfare

noun

a type of warfare in which opposing armies face each other in entrenched positions

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Cultural definitions for trench warfare

trench warfare

Warfare marked by slow wearing down of the opposing forces and piecemeal gains at heavy cost. The term applies especially to World War I.

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