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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. a struggle (usually prolonged) between competing entities in which neither side is able to win;
- Example: "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;
- Example: "instead of the war ending quickly, it became bogged down in trench warfare"



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

trench warfare
    n 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"