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Ypres - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Ypres : (noun)
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: Ypres,
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: Ypres,
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: Ypres, battle of Ypres,
first battle of Ypres]
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