Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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pitched battle | Yes | No | No | No |
battle of Passchendaele | Yes | No | No | No |
pitched battle (noun) | battle of Passchendaele (noun) |
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a fierce battle fought in close combat between troops in predetermined positions at a chosen time and place | 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 |