noun
1. battle in World War I (1917); an Allied offensive which eventually failed because tanks bogged down in the waterlogged soil of Flanders; Germans introduced mustard gas which interfered with the Allied artillery
• Syn: ↑Ypres, ↑third 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
2. 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, ↑second 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
3. battle in World War I (1914); heavy but indecisive fighting as the Allies and the Germans both tried to break through the lines of the others
• Syn: ↑Ypres, ↑first 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.