trench warfare
Noun
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Noun
trench warfare (uncountable)
- (uncountable) Warfare in which opposing sides occupy trenches and repeatedly fire at one another; usually involving high casualty rates over a long period of time.
- (uncountable, by extension) Fighting of any sort which offers no hope of ending soon.
- French: guerre des tranchées
- German: Grabenkrieg, Grabenkampf
- Spanish: guerra de trincheras
- German: Grabenkampf
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