noun
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, ↑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.