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aggressor
[ uh-gres-er ]
noun
- a person, group, or nation that attacks first or initiates hostilities; an assailant or invader.
Word History and Origins
Origin of aggressor1
Example Sentences
Moscow had used its announcement of a 30-hour pause in the fighting to send a signal to the White House: that in this war Russia is the peacemaker and Kyiv the aggressor.
On the other side of those epics is the machinery rewriting those accounts to make the aggressors into heroes and the rebels into criminals.
VioGén - an algorithm-based system - asks 35 questions about the abuse and its intensity, the aggressor's access to weapons, his mental health and whether the woman has left, or is considering leaving, the relationship.
Or if the president of a war-torn country cried out for help from a violent aggressor.
At one point Washington voted with Moscow against a UN resolution that identified Russia as the "aggressor" in Russia's war against Ukraine.
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