Definition of 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
    - battle of ypres - first battle of ypres
  • 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 of ypres - second battle of ypres
  • 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 of ypres - third battle of ypres
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Unscramble ypres

37 unscramble word found using the letters ypres.
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