ypres
NOUN
/ipRə/
5 LETTERS · 2 SYLLABLES · STARTS WITH Y
ypres is a valid 5-letter word worth 10 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
SCRABBLE
WORDS WITH FRIENDS
Y4P3R1E1S1
4 + 3 + 1 + 1 + 1 =10 PTS
DOUBLE WORD → 20TRIPLE WORD → 30
MEANING
What does ypres mean?
NOUN · 3 SENSES
1
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.
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2
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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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.
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