noun
battle in World War I (1915); Germans wanted to try chlorine (a toxic yellow gas) as a weapon and succeeded in taking considerable territory from the Allied salient
• Syn: ↑Ypres, ↑battle of Ypres
• Regions: ↑Belgium, ↑Kingdom of Belgium, ↑Belgique
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑pitched battle
• Part Holonyms: ↑World War I, ↑World War 1, ↑Great War, ↑First World War, ↑War to End War
Useful english dictionary. 2012.