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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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Word History and Origins

Origin of aggressor1

1670–80; < Late Latin, Latin aggred- (stem of ī to attack; aggress ) + -tor -tor
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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.

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On the other side of those epics is the machinery rewriting those accounts to make the aggressors into heroes and the rebels into criminals.

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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.

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Or if the president of a war-torn country cried out for help from a violent aggressor.

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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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