Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun trench_warfare

2 senses of trench warfare

Sense 1
trench warfare -- (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")
       => war, warfare -- (an active struggle between competing entities; "a price war"; "a war of wits"; "diplomatic warfare")

Sense 2
trench warfare -- (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")
       => combat, armed combat -- (an engagement fought between two military forces)