Ypres

Ypres
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
• 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
• 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
• 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

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Ypres [Ypres]
a town in Belgium near which three separate battles (1914, 1915 and 1917) were fought in ↑World War I. In the first, the ↑British Expeditionary Force suffered terrible losses, the second involved the first use of poisonous gas as a weapon by the Germans, and the third resulted in the deaths of over half a million men.

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