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entrenchment

/en-trench-muhnt/US // ɛnˈtrɛntʃ mənt //UK // (ɪnˈtrɛntʃmənt) //

战壕,堑壕,战壕建设,战壕里的人

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of entrenching.
    • : an entrenched position.
    • : Usually entrenchments. an earth breastwork or ditch for protection against enemy fire.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as intrespass
as inimpingement

Examples

  • You end up with a much longer-term impact of entrenchment of these inequalities that have arisen as part of the pandemic.

  • Ideological entrenchment in Washington has led us to a completely foreseeable impasse.

  • There is nothing hypothetical about the increasing entrenchment of the Israeli presence in the West Bank.

  • How little did she realize the long drawn-out agony that was even then beginning for her sisters in that ill-fated entrenchment!

  • They carried the intervening entrenchment of the enemy and forced their way into the town.

  • Gerrans Bay, of course, embodies the name, and so do the remains of the entrenchment or camp at Dingerrein.

  • Tregonning Hill, close by, is somewhat higher, and its summit has a fine entrenchment with a striking inner vallum.

  • The entrenchment showed like the rim of a saucer, and over its narrow line peeped the summit of the central tree.