Dunkirk

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Synonyms for Dunkirk

a crisis in which a desperate effort is the only alternative to defeat

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a seaport in northern France on the North Sea

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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

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