Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun second_battle_of_ypres

1 sense of second battle of ypres

Sense 1
Ypres, battle of Ypres, second battle of Ypres -- (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)
       INSTANCE OF=> pitched battle -- (a fierce battle fought in close combat between troops in predetermined positions at a chosen time and place)