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    AGGRESSOR

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A confident assertive person who acts as instigatorplay

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting people

    Hypernyms ("aggressor" is a kind of...):

    initiator; instigator (a person who initiates a course of action)

    Sense 2

    Meaning:

    Someone who attacksplay

    Synonyms:

    aggressor; assailant; assaulter; attacker

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting people

    Hypernyms ("aggressor" is a kind of...):

    offender; wrongdoer (a person who transgresses moral or civil law)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "aggressor"):

    ambusher (an attacker who waits in a concealed position to launch a surprise attack)

    avenger; retaliator (someone who takes vengeance)

    beast; brute; savage; wildcat; wolf (a cruelly rapacious person)

    bludgeoner (an assailant who uses a bludgeon)

    bully; hooligan; roughneck; rowdy; ruffian; tough; yob; yobbo; yobo (a cruel and brutal fellow)

    harasser; harrier (a persistent attacker)

    iconoclast (someone who attacks cherished ideas or traditional institutions)

    marauder; piranha; predator; vulture (someone who attacks in search of booty)

    night rider; nightrider (member of a secret mounted band in United States South after the American Civil War; committed acts of intimidation and revenge)

    raper; rapist (someone who forces another to have sexual intercourse)

    shedder; spiller (an attacker who sheds or spills blood)

    slasher (someone who slashes another person)

    stabber (someone who stabs another person)

    lapidator; stoner (an attacker who pelts the victim with stones (especially with intent to kill))

    Derivation:

    aggress (take the initiative and go on the offensive)

    Credits


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