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aggressor
[ uh-gres-er ]
noun
- a person, group, or nation that attacks first or initiates hostilities; an assailant or invader.
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Origin of aggressor1
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Example Sentences
Later on, the release refers to the accuser as the “sexual aggressor” with “not one, but two young men early last Sunday morning.”
And in many cases the appropriate response to an invasion has been a declaration of war against the aggressor.
They intercept and diffuse, to some extent babysitting the possible aggressor until the disease of violent intent has passed.
When passions are enflamed, people will be less willing to sit down and negotiate with someone they view as an aggressor.
Davis begins the film, punched by an aggressor into the gutter and ends it the same way.
He ascertained, from a reliable source of information, that Haggard had not been the aggressor.
It is, as far as we can tell, the only war in human history in which Mankind is fully justified as the invading aggressor.
Eda, of course, was the aggressor; she was irresistibly drawn, she would not be repulsed.
The eagle-eyed teacher spied the movement and haled the aggressor to the floor.
The tradition in Geoffrey's day, at least, distinctly states that Oswald's conqueror was the aggressor.
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