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[ noun ] someone who attacks

Used in print

(LeRoy Fothergill, "Biological Warfare", in Peter...)

An aggressor would use an agent against which there was a minimal naturally acquired or artificially induced immunity in a target population .

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[ noun ] a confident assertive person who acts as instigator

Used in print

(Philip Reaves, "Who Rules the Marriage Bed?"...)

One such man once confided to Dr._Theodor_Reik , New_York psychiatrist , that he preferred to have his wife the sexual aggressor .

Related terms

instigator

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