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aggressor

[uh-gres-er]

noun

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



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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of aggressor1

1670–80; < Late Latin, Latin aggred- (stem of ī to attack; aggress ) + -tor -tor
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"I don't see a scenario in which the majority of Iranians are going to side with an aggressor against their country while it's bombing it, and somehow view that as liberation."

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It was, he said, an example of Ukraine's ability to investigate and prosecute war crimes impartially, despite being the victim and under an ongoing state of war from the aggressor.

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What happens next in Los Angeles between the military and protesters — which group is perceived as the aggressors — may likely determine what happens next in our democracy.

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"We now have a situation in which we are funding the aggressor in a war that we're condemning and also funding the resistance to the war," she says.

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Duckett, on his home ground, was the aggressor, whipping into the leg side when the tourists drifted on to his pads.

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