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- Dunkirk
- an amphibious evacuation in World War II (1940) when 330,000 Allied troops had to be evacuated from the beaches in northern France in a desperate retreat under enemy fire
- a seaport in northern France on the North Sea; scene of the evacuation of British forces in 1940 during World War II
- a crisis in which a desperate effort is the only alternative to defeat; "the Russians had to pull off a Dunkirk to get out of there"
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Related Words:
- battle
collapse - a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war; "Grant won a decisive victory in the battle of Chickamauga"; "he lost his romantic ideas about war when he got into a real engagement"
- battle or contend against in or as if in a battle; "The Kurds are combating Iraqi troops in Northern Iraq"; "We must combat the prejudices against other races"; "they battled over the budget" related words >
- Actium,
- Adrianople,
- Aegates Isles,
- Aegospotami,
- Agincourt,
- Antietam,
- Anzio,
- Arbela-Gaugamela,
- Ardennes,
- Austerlitz,
- Ayacucho,
- Balaclava,
- Bannockburn,
- Bataan-Corregidor,
- Bismarck Sea,
- Blenheim,
- Bosworth Field,
- Bouvines,
- Boyne,
- Brunanburh,
- Bunker Hill,
- Cannae,
- Caporetto,
- Chancellorsville,
- Crecy,
- Dunkirk,
- El Alamein,
- Flodden,
- Fontenoy,
- Fredericksburg,
- Gaza,
- Gettysburg,
- Granicus River,
- Guadalcanal,
- Hampton Roads,
- Hastings,
- Hohenlinden,
- Inchon,
- Long Island,
- Marathon,
- Midway,
- Poitiers,
- Sedan,
- Singapore,
- Solferino,
- Waterloo,
- action,
- aerial combat,
- affray,
- agonize,
- all-out war,
- altercation,
- antagonize,
- appeal to arms,
- argument,
- arm,
- armed combat,
- armed conflict,
- armor,
- armor-plate,
- armored combat,
- assail,
- assault,
- attack,
- bank,
- barricade,
- battle royal,
- beat against,
- beat up against,
- belligerence,
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- blockade,
- bloodshed,
- bombard,
- box,
- brawl,
- breast the wave,
- broil,
- brush,
- buck,
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- buffet the waves,
- bullfight,
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- campaign,
- carry on hostilities,
- castellate,
- clash,
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- close,
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- cockfight,
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- crenellate,
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- cut and thrust,
- dig in,
- dispute,
- dogfight,
- duel,
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- embroilment,
- encounter,
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- engagement,
- entrench,
- exchange blows,
- exchange of blows,
- fence,
- feud,
- fight,
- fight a duel,
- fight against,
- fighting,
- fire fight,
- fortify,
- fracas,
- fray,
- garrison,
- give and take,
- give satisfaction,
- grapple,
- grapple with,
- ground combat,
- grunt and sweat,
- hand-to-hand combat,
- hand-to-hand fight,
- hassle,
- hostilities,
- hot war,
- house-to-house combat,
- huff and puff,
- join battle with,
- jostle,
- joust,
- la guerre,
- labor against,
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- man,
- man the garrison,
- melee,
- might of arms,
- military operations,
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- mine,
- mix it up,
- naval combat,
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- onset,
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- open hostilities,
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- oppugn,
- palisade,
- passage of arms,
- pitched battle,
- quarrel,
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- reluct,
- reluctate,
- resort to arms,
- riot,
- rival,
- rumble,
- run a tilt,
- running fight,
- scramble,
- scrimmage,
- scuffle,
- shed blood,
- shooting war,
- shoving match,
- skirmish,
- sortie,
- spar,
- spill blood,
- stand-up fight,
- state of war,
- stem the tide,
- street fight,
- strive,
- strive against,
- struggle,
- struggle against,
- take on,
- tauromachy,
- the sword,
- thrust and parry,
- tilt,
- total war,
- tourney,
- tug,
- tug-of-war,
- tussle,
- vie with,
- wage war,
- wall,
- war,
- warfare,
- warmaking,
- warring,
- wartime,
- wrestle
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