second battle of ypres

Noun second battle of ypres has 1 sense

• second battle of ypres(n = noun.act) battle of ypres, 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;
is a kind of pitched battle
is a part of first world war, great war, war to end war, world war 1, world war i