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  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  Ypres 
  n  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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