English > assailant: 1 sense > noun 1, person | Meaning | someone who attacks. |
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| Synonyms | attacker, aggressor, assaulter |
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| Narrower | ambusher | An attacker who waits in a concealed position to launch a surprise attack |
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| avenger, retaliator | someone who takes vengeance |
| beast, wolf, savage, brute, wildcat | A cruelly rapacious person |
| bludgeoner | An assailant who uses a bludgeon |
| bully, tough, hooligan, ruffian, roughneck, rowdy, yob, yobo, yobbo | A cruel and brutal fellow |
| harasser, harrier | A persistent attacker |
| iconoclast | someone who attacks cherished ideas or traditional institutions |
| marauder, predator, vulture, piranha | someone who attacks in search of booty |
| night rider, nightrider | Member of a secret mounted band in United States South after the American Civil War |
| raper, rapist | someone who forces another to have sexual intercourse |
| shedder, spiller | An attacker who sheds or spills blood |
| slasher | someone who slashes / slashes another person |
| stabber | someone who stabs another person |
| stoner, lapidator | An attacker who pelts the victim with stones (especially with intent to kill) |
| Broader | wrongdoer, offender | A person who transgresses moral or civil law |
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| Spanish | agresora, agresor, asaltador, asaltante, atacante |
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| Catalan | agressor, assaltador, atacant |
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| Verbs | assail | attack in speech or writing |
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| assail | attack someone physically or emotionally |
| assail | launch an attack or assault on |
