trench warfare meaning and definition

TRENCH WARFARE noun

Definition of trench warfare (noun)

1. 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. 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"