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1 definition found 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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