aggressor
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of aggressor
1670–80; < Late Latin, Latin aggred- (stem of aggredī to attack; aggress ) + -tor -tor
Example Sentences
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He warned this month that "any external aggressor will encounter an unbreakable resistance."
From Barron's • Mar. 29, 2026
But attorneys for the county argued in court filings that it was Seitz who was actually the aggressor.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2026
Will then lurches into a tut-tutting recapitulation of the French army chief of staff’s public statement that his nation’s people must accept the risk of losing their children to protect France from an unnamed aggressor.
From Salon • Dec. 20, 2025
What is disputed is which power Adolf Hitler, the war’s main aggressor, was most concerned with and which power made the biggest contribution to his defeat.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025
For the first time in modern history, major wars of aggression were stopped partly because of the revulsion felt by the citizens of the aggressor nations.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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