Trench Warfare (Noun)
Meaning 1
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".
Classification
Nouns denoting acts or actions.
Examples
- Trench warfare in World War I lasted for four long years with very little advancement for either side.
- Trench warfare drained both countries of manpower, but despite huge losses the soldiers' will to resist the enemy didn't.
- Fought over thousands of square kilometers, it resembled one extended combat during those infamous five months in endless wars including at infamous stalling out under new awful phase on slow World War years given gruesome world old early twenties descriptions World at like prolonged great military situation dread just having worse worldwide destruction periods that was Trench Warfare.
- Military historians consider the strategy of trench warfare an example of a tactical stalemate and an especially deadly and wasteful form of warfare, producing perhaps the worst battle conditions in history.
- He fought on French soil and experienced firsthand the inhuman and bloody conditions of trench warfare, and his stories about this affected even future generations of military personnel.
Hypernyms
Meaning 2
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".
Classification
Nouns denoting acts or actions.
Examples
- The prolonged and heated debate between the two rival companies had turned into a form of trench warfare, with neither side willing to concede.
- Their relationship had become a stalemate, a trench warfare of bitter arguments and resentful silences that seemed to have no end in sight.
- The struggle for dominance in the market had turned into a trench warfare, with each side launching a series of counterattacks that ultimately led to a stalemate.
- The labor negotiations had degenerated into a form of trench warfare, with each side dug in and refusing to budge.
- The campaign had become a trench warfare of negative ads and personal attacks, with neither candidate able to gain a decisive advantage.