Synonyms for aggressor
əˈgrɛs ərag·gres·sor

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1. attacker, aggressor, assailant, assaulternoun

   someone who attacks

   Synonyms:
   assailant, assaulter, attacker

2. aggressornoun

   a confident assertive person who acts as instigator

   Synonyms:
   assailant, attacker, assaulter

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1. • Instigator
   • Wrongdoer

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1. aggressornoun

   Synonyms:
   assailant, assaulter, attacker, assailer, invader

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1. List of paraphrases for "aggressor":

   assailant, abuser, attacker, perpetrator, offender, mugger, invading, molester, aggression, stressor, aggressive

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1. Danny Danon:

   When someone says that he calls on all sides to stop the violence, I will fight that, it’s not all sides. It’s one side who is the aggressor — who’s sending kids to murder other kids. And the other side is protecting itself.

2. Boris Johnson:

   Now we see [Putin] for what he is — a bloodstained aggressor who believes in imperial conquest.

3. Harold Flores:

   We want girls, who have been victims of sexual violence, to remain in their home or be under the care of a relative. In some cases in the past girls were placed in government care and the aggressor wasn't arrested, it's deplorable that many of these cases are a result of sexual violence within the nuclear family: stepfathers, uncles, fathers, and grandfathers. We're reaching more and more girls as soon as we hear about a case and we have expanded our presence across Guatemala and rural areas.

4. Richard Drouaillet:

   He was more of an aggressor, trying to get us involved, he was trying to get us on his side, when we felt like it was a lot of lies that he was telling us.

5. Liubov Abravitova:

   It is very disturbing, that South Africa is hosting a military exercise with the country – an aggressor, invader – that is using its military force against a peaceful country, bringing destruction and trying to eliminate the Ukrainian Nation.