trench warfare
noun
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Sense 1 noun
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
Types & categories
- warfare hypernym
Sense 2 noun
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
Types & categories
- combat hypernym
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
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| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | warfare |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | combat |