Trench warfare
Trench warfare noun - A struggle (usually prolonged) between competing entities in which neither side is able to win.
Usage 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
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Synonyms for Trench warfare
War and trench warfare are semantically related. In some cases you can use "War" instead a noun phrase "Trench warfare".
War
War noun - A state of armed violent struggle between states, nations, or groups.
Trench warfare and war are semantically related. Sometimes you can replace phrase "Trench warfare" with "War", this terms are similar.
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- It follows war movie conventions rigorously right up to the third act, where the main characters are picked off one by one in trench warfare, until they are all dead.
Source: Shoot The Shaggy Dog / Film - The chapters about the trench warfare on the Aragon front don't fit this trope, but not War Is Glorious, either; rather, Orwell describes it as boring and stale.
Source: Literature / Homage to Catalonia -
Short story "Lynortis Reprise" from Kane series is set in a fantasy equivalent of World War I Western front - complete with trench warfare, (magical) poisonous gases and tragic fate of numerous young men crippled in combat.
Source: Fantasy Conflict Counterpart
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