Definition of "trench warfare" []

• Warfare in which opposing sides occupy trenches and repeatedly fire at one another; usually involving high casualty rates over a long period of time. (noun)
• Fighting of any sort which offers no hope of ending soon. (noun)

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• "Although human-malaria trench warfare shows that random mutation is severely limited in scope, the idea of common descent has a lot more going for it."