trench warfare

Noun trench warfare has 2 senses

• trench warfare(n = noun.act) - 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"
is a kind of war, warfare

• trench warfare(n = noun.act) - 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"
is a kind of armed combat, combat