Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who attacks or assaults; an assailant.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who attacks.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Someone who
attacks - noun soccer Players on a team in
football (soccer ) in the row nearest to the opposing team'sgoal , who are therefore principally responsible forscoring goals.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who attacks
Etymologies
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Examples
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Whether the attacker is a lynx or bobcat is also up for debate.
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But your attacker is a victim too, and she becomes your new associate.
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With Ian Tomlinson, the attacker is a police officer.
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In fact, in many cases, especially where the attacker is a woman and the student a male, such assaults are treated as a joke, with a hand-slap for the teacher, and some ribald locker room humor directed at the student.
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Whether or not the attacker is a police officer should be irrelevant in the substantive law.
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Chile's main attacker come from Real Zaragoza's Humberto Suazo, who was the top scorer in South American qualifying.
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The chief said that the alleged attacker is a male American.
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The subjective intent of the attacker is irrelevant.
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MAD does not work in asymmetric warfare, nor when the attacker does not value their own life, nor when the attacker is willing to sacrifice their own children for furthering theircause.
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Based on the bite marks, the attacker is presumed to be a 20-foot long Great White shark.
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