aggressornoun [ C ]
uk/əˈɡres.ər/us/əˈɡres.ɚ/a person or country that starts an argument, fight, or war by attacking first
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Attacking & invading
- ambush
- beleaguer
- beleaguered
- blitz
- blitz
- cyberwarfare
- engage
- engagement
- going-over
- incursion
- invade
- invader
- offensive
- reducer
- rip into sb/sth
- rush
- sack
- sacking
- sally
- sortie
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Arguing & disagreeing
Examples from literature
- It is said that, as a rule, the aggressors are victorious, for rarely do they attack an enemy that is too strongly entrenched.
- It was the aggressors themselves that were now under cross fire, and they relished it very little.
- The chances are that the aggressor would come off worst.
- The natives find that they are men like themselves, and that their intrusion is an injury, and they perhaps become the aggressors in provoking hostilities.
- The result was a duel, in which the aggressor was wounded.