Quick definitions from WordNet (Ypres)
▸ noun: 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
▸ noun: 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
▸ noun: 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
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▸ noun: 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
▸ noun: 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
▸ noun: 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
▸ Words similar to ypres
▸ Usage examples for ypres
▸ Idioms related to ypres (New!)
▸ Popular adjectives describing ypres
▸ Words that often appear near ypres
▸ Rhymes of ypres
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