AGGRESSOR

aggressor

(noun) a confident assertive person who acts as instigator

attacker, aggressor, assailant, assaulter

(noun) someone who attacks

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

aggressor (plural aggressors)

The person or country that first attacks or makes an aggression; that begins hostility or a quarrel; an assailant.

Etymology

Proper noun

Aggressor

a fictional state created by the United States Army for maneuver and military exercise purposes in the 1950's

Noun

Aggressor (plural Aggressors)

a citizen/subject of the fictional Aggressor state

Source: Wiktionary


Ag*gres"sor, n. Etym: [L.: cf. F. agresseur.]

Definition: The person who first attacks or makes an aggression; he who begins hostility or a quarrel; an assailant. The insolence of the aggressor is usually proportioned to the tameness of the sufferer. Ames.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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16 March 2025

SUSPENDED

(adjective) (of undissolved particles in a fluid) supported or kept from sinking or falling by buoyancy and without apparent attachment; “suspended matter such as silt or mud...”; “dust particles suspended in the air”; “droplets in suspension in a gas”


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