trench warfare

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Definition of trench warfare in English Turkish dictionary

siper harbi

(Askeri) SİPER HARBİ: Siperlerde bulunan iki taraf arasındaki savaş. Bak. "stabilized warfare"

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English - English

Definition of trench warfare in English English dictionary

Fighting of any sort which offers no hope of ending soon

Warfare in which opposing sides occupy trenches; usually very bloody, miserable, and endless

type of combat in which soldiers fight from the inside of trenches (from World War I)

a method of fighting in which soldiers from opposing armies are in trenches facing each other. Warfare in which the opposing sides attack, counterattack, and defend from sets of trenches dug into the ground. It was developed by Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban in the 17th century for laying siege to fortresses. Its defensive use was first institutionalized as a tactic during the American Civil War. It reached its highest development in World War I. Little used in World War II, it reappeared in the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s. A typical construction consisted of two to four parallel trenches, each dug in a zigzag, protected by sandbags, and floored with wooden planks. The parallel trenches were connected by a series of communication trenches dug roughly perpendicular to them. The first row was fronted by barbed wire and contained machine-gun emplacements; the rear trenches housed most of the troops. Increased use of tanks marked the end of trench warfare, since tanks were invulnerable to the machine-gun and rifle fire used by entrenched soldiers

Hyphenation

trench war·fare

Turkish pronunciation

trenç wôrfer

Synonyms

guerrilla warfare, static warfare

Pronunciation

/ˈtrenʧ ˈwôrˌfer/ /ˈtrɛnʧ ˈwɔːrˌfɛr/

Etymology

[ 'trench ] (noun.) 15th century. Middle English trenche track cut through a wood, from Middle French, act of cutting, from trenchier to cut, probably from Vulgar Latin trinicare to cut in three, from Latin trini three each; more at TRINE.