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ag·gres·sor

(ə-grĕs′ər)

One that engages in aggression.

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ag•gres•sor

(əˈgrɛs ər)

n.

a person, group, or nation that attacks first or initiates hostilities; an assailant or invader.

[1670–80; < Late Latin]

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Noun	1.	aggressor - someone who attacks assailant, assaulter, attacker offender, wrongdoer - a person who transgresses moral or civil law ambusher - an attacker who waits in a concealed position to launch a surprise attack avenger, retaliator - someone who takes vengeance brute, savage, wildcat, beast, wolf - a cruelly rapacious person bludgeoner - an assailant who uses a bludgeon bully, hooligan, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, yob, yobbo, yobo, tough - a cruel and brutal fellow harrier, harasser - a persistent attacker; "the harassers were not members of the regular army" 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 shedder, spiller - an attacker who sheds or spills blood; "a great hunter and spiller of 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)
	2.	aggressor - a confident assertive person who acts as instigator initiator, instigator - a person who initiates a course of action

aggressor

noun attacker, assaulter, invader, assailant They have been the aggressors in this conflict.

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

aggressor

noun

One who starts a hostile action:

assailant, assailer, assaulter, attacker.

Translations

مُعْتَدِ، بَادِئ بِالعُدْوَان

agresorútočník

angribermodstridende part

Aggressor Angreifer

agresor

agresseur attaquant

támadó

árásaraîili

aggressore

agressor

aggressorangriper

агрессор захватчик

agresor

saldırgan

侵略者

aggressor

[əˈgresəʳ] N → agresor(a) m/f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

aggressor

[əˈgrɛsə^r] n → agresseur m

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

aggressor

n → Angreifer(in) m(f), → Aggressor(in) m(f)

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

aggressor

[əˈgrɛsəʳ] n → aggressore/aggreditrice

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

aggressive

(əˈgresiv) adjective

ready to attack or oppose; quarrelsome. He's a most aggressive boy – he is always fighting at school.

agˈgressively adverb

agˈgressiveness noun

agˈgression (-ʃən) noun

(a feeling of) hostility.

agˈgressor noun

(in a war etc) the party which attacks first.

References in classic literature ?

Again he was brought face to face with that opposing force. He knew that however much they tried, they could not hire more than forty--thirty-seven perhaps or thirty-eight-- laborers for a reasonable sum.

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The sole aim of each of us was to hurl one of the opposing force into the sea.

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There had long been a truce between the opposing forces, but according to the Guide-Book, Raynauld of Chatillon, Lord of Kerak, broke it by plundering a Damascus caravan, and refusing to give up either the merchants or their goods when Saladin demanded them.

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(6) The purpose of decisive points is to fulfill populace needs or to have an operational effect on the ability of the irregular opposing force to fulfill populace needs.

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"You are going to need an opposing force at combat training centers that can change, can react, can stay tied to trends on the battlefield and does not take some long period to make changes in the way they do tactics, techniques and procedures."

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Making a decisive excursion into political science, Ball defines an "opposing force" as any group whose views "conflict with the government's." The Snake River Alliance fits into this category, says Ball, because of its opposition to nuclear-bomb making and nuclear-waste storage at the Department of Energy's facility outside Twin Falls.

Idaho's enemies: the National Guard counts environmentalists among them

But engineers say conven tional brakes could be aided by magnets in the track that exert an opposing force on metal plates under trains.

Magnets can beat 'leaves on line' delay

(11) The center of gravity is identical to the desired core of legitimacy of the irregular opposing force. Subsequent efforts should be applied to decision points and the classification of lines of operation and effort.

The human domain and the hybrid threat

It is also very difficult for any opposing force to attack these Islamists.

Islamist control of northern Mali is very dangerous

Black-and-white photographs illustrate the descriptive text, which tells of jungles, mountains, and deserts that were as deadly as any opposing force. A scrupulous and highly recommended text for college library and world history shelves.

Wars of Latin America, 1899-1941

Needle positioning is then performed by means of a balance of the force of the spring and the opposing force generated by the material flowing into the injection nozzle.