YPRES as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • 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
   Synonym(s)
   • battle of Ypres (what does battle of Ypres mean?)
   • first battle of Ypres (what does first battle of Ypres mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) Ypres is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • pitched battle (what does pitched battle mean?)
2. Meaning
   • 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
   Synonym(s)
   • battle of Ypres (what does battle of Ypres mean?)
   • second battle of Ypres (what does second battle of Ypres mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) Ypres is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • pitched battle (what does pitched battle mean?)
3. Meaning
   • 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
   Synonym(s)
   • battle of Ypres (what does battle of Ypres mean?)
   • third battle of Ypres (what does third battle of Ypres mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) Ypres is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • pitched battle (what does pitched battle mean?)