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单词 entrenchment
释义
entrenchmenten‧trench‧ment /ɪnˈtrentʃmənt/ noun Examples
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  • As the banks were rather steep the defenders spent several days cutting entrenchments and embrasures in expectation of battle.
  • The dogmatic resistance to entrenchment would raise its arid and pedantic head.
  • The foot were also responsible for entrenchments and for engineering works associated with sieges.
  • Thousands of Union men were set to digging entrenchments and preparing emplacements for siege guns.
word sets
WORD SETS
bomb shelter, nounearthwork, nounentanglement, nounentrenchment, nounmail, nounmoat, nounrepulse, verbresistance, nounstockade, nounwar game, noun
1[uncountable] when an attitude, belief etc becomes firmly established2[countable] a system of trenches (=long deep holes) dug by soldiers for defence or protection
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