Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One that engages in aggression.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The person who first attacks; one who begins hostilities or makes encroachment; an assailant or invader.
Wiktionary
- n. The person who first attacks or makes an aggression; he who begins hostility or a quarrel; an assailant.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The person who first attacks or makes an aggression; he who begins hostility or a quarrel; an assailant.
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone who attacks
- n. a confident assertive person who acts as instigator
Examples
“But if the aggressor is an SUV, the car driver's relative chance of dying rises to 30 to 1, because the hood of an SUV is so high off the ground.”
“In an election year, the congressmen had been most worried about the political fallout if Israel were identified as an aggressor.”
“The death of the aggressor is not merely connected with another means than is intended, but it itself, and as death, is useful and judged necessary to your defense.”
“I mean, he used the word aggressor about 20 times.”
“No violator of international law, no aggressor, is to be rewarded by mild compromises.”
“So we must have sufficient forces in being to turn the aggressor from the risk that his first violent blow would not lead to the complete success which he must achieve.”
“Now the aggressor is not going to announce he is about to aggress, keeping his whole armed forces in the neighborhood of the great Russian Supply bases.”
“First, she blocks the door (as she has done since December, 1941) to the Western advance of an aggressor from the Far East.”
“We regard it, however, as a last and if these cases do arise, we are convinced that such force must not be employed until it can be established beyond doubt that an act of violence or aggression has been committed, and then only when the guilt of the alleged aggressor is universally acknowledged.”
“In intelligence school during those first months we reviewed not only the rudiments of good intelligence gathering - interrogation of enemy prisoners, analysis of raw intelligence data, and the like - but we learned the basics of administration and how to run a wartime intelligence unit called the aggressor force.”
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