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YPRES Synonyms

There are 5 synonyms of the word ypres. (exact relations)
There is 0 hypernym of the word ypres. (close relations)

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battle of ypres
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• 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

• 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

• 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

battle of passchendaele
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• 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

first battle of ypres
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• 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

second battle of ypres
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• 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

third battle of ypres
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• 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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