Crossword clues for aggressor
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1670s, from Latin aggressor, agent noun from aggredi "to approach, attack" (see aggression).
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.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Aggressor is the seventh studio album from German synthpop group And One, released in 2003 by Virgin.
It was the band's first album to feature no songs sung in English, instead consisting completely of German-language tracks. Its style is close to that of their next album, Bodypop, but retains their previous sound at the same time.
"Krieger" was released as the first and only single from the album.
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), a 2005 novel by Andy McNab
- Aggressor (horse) a Thoroughbred racehorse
Aggressor (1955 – after 1971) was a British Thoroughbred race horse and sire. In a racing career which lasted from 1957 until July 1960 he ran twenty times and won eleven races. In his first three seasons he showed solid form, winning races including the Solario Stakes, the Coronation Stakes and the Cumberland Lodge Stakes. He reached his peak as a five-year-old in 1960 when he won the John Porter Stakes and the Hardwicke Stakes before recording his biggest success when defeating the outstanding filly Petite Etoile in the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes.
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.