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aggressor

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone who attacks [syn: attacker , assailant , assaulter ] a confident assertive person who acts as instigator

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Aggressor may refer to: Aggressor (album) , a 2003 synthpop album HMS Aggressor , two Royal Navy ships USS Aggressor , two United States Navy ships Aggressor squadron , a United States military unit acting as an opponent in wargames Aggressor (novel) , ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Aggressor \Ag*gres"sor\, n. [L.: cf. F. agresseur.] The person who first attacks or makes an aggression; he who begins hostility or a quarrel; an assailant. The insolence of the aggressor is usually proportioned to the tameness of the sufferer. --Ames.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ a call for united action against the foreign aggressor ▪ The situation is complex and it is not easy to determine exactly who is the aggressor in this case. ▪ The USSR scored valuable propaganda points against its Western ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. The person or country that first attacks or makes an aggression; that begins hostility or a quarrel; an assailant. n. The person or country that first attacks or makes an aggression; that begins hostility or a quarrel; an assailant.

Usage examples of aggressor.

Special Forces units trained in Aggressor tactics playing the role of the adversary.

American forces can respond in kind, presenting a mirror image of Aggressor doctrine.

Perhaps not surprisingly, the norms of Aggressor guerrilla warfare were already adapted for instruction of Americans and their allies in real-world unconventional warfare in the 1950s.

Superaware because of the Aggressor still in his system, Zammit could tell the big man was spending more time casting sideways glances at him than looking at the fetid contamination in the reservoir.

The aftereffects of Aggressor included mood swings, angry outbursts, and emotional coldness.

It is probable, however, that neither side actually realized that war was inevitable, and that the other was determined to fight, until the assault on Fort Sumter presented the South as the first aggressor and roused the North to use every possible resource to maintain the government and the imperilled Union, and to vindicate the supremacy of the flag over every inch of the territory of the United States.

Once again, he found himself looking at the dark bulk of the aggressor ship as it came about and aimed its weapons ports.

Guy parried and backed away from a fierce series of attacks, then turned aggressor and forced Dante to back away from his blows.

Dyson Pair or their aggressor is going to fade away in a single millennia.

There was no evidence that the people who had built these underground catacombs were aggressors or that the capture of prisoners had any place in their society.

They were the hard-eyed group, the appraisers, the potential aggressors, the bunch of guys making the half-obvious pitch at the interesting stranger.

Wednesday, November 2 2100 hours Nuclear bomb factory Chah Bahar, Iran General Reza Ruhollah had been outside his commandeered headquarters at the bomb plant and on his way to where his men reported a firefight was in progress with aggressors.

Russia and Sweden, occasioned by the hostilities committed by the former power, his Britannic majesty would consider Russia as the aggressor, and the czarina could not expect that he would supply her with the succours which he was engaged by treaty to furnish for her defence, in case she should be attacked.

James with his literal mind provided this game with an aggressor, a defender, and the final extraction by coercion or violence of the first osculatory contact.

Dutch ships were restored, after their commanders acknowledged their fault, in owning themselves the aggressors.