Ypres

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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Ypres
       n 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: {battle
            of Ypres}, {third battle of Ypres}]


       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: {battle
          of Ypres}, {second battle of Ypres}]
       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: {battle of Ypres}, {first
          battle of Ypres}]