second battle of ypres

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second battle of ypres - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  second battle of Ypres
      n 1: 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:
           Ypres, battle of Ypres, second battle of Ypres]