"trench warfare" meaning in English

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Noun

Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} trench warfare (uncountable)
  1. (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. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): War Translations (warfare in which opposing sides occupy trenches): skyttegravskrig [common-gender] (Danish), loopgravenoorlog [masculine] (Dutch), asemasota (Finnish), guerre des tranchées [feminine] (French), Grabenkrieg [masculine] (German), Grabenkampf [masculine] (German), skotgrafahernaður [masculine] (Icelandic), wojna pozycyjna [feminine] (Polish), cogadh nan trainnsichean [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), guerra de trincheras [feminine] (Spanish), skyttegravskrig [neuter] (Swedish), позиці́йна війна́ (pozycíjna vijná) [feminine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-trench_warfare-en-noun-1CFje8m0 Disambiguation of War: 68 32 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 83 17 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 82 18 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 77 23 Disambiguation of 'warfare in which opposing sides occupy trenches': 97 3
  2. (uncountable, by extension) Fighting of any sort which offers no hope of ending soon. Tags: broadly, uncountable Translations (fighting of any sort): Grabenkampf [masculine] (German), skyttegravskrig [neuter] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-trench_warfare-en-noun-FX3GhYeL Disambiguation of 'fighting of any sort': 16 84

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