Synonyms for attacker
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : uh-tak |
| Phonetic Transcription : əˈtæk |
Définition of attacker
Origin :- c.1600, from French attaquer (16c.), from Florentine Italian attaccare (battaglia) "join (battle)," thus the word is a doublet of attach, which was used 15c.-17c. also in the sense now reserved to attack. Related: Attacked; attacking.
- noun aggressor
- He reached for his own hand weapon, still searching for his attacker.
- Extract from : « The Players » by Everett B. Cole
- When the attacker has been repulsed, they don't chase him a foot.
- Extract from : « Masters of Space » by Edward Elmer Smith
- The attacker laughed exultantly, mockingly, as he swung his horse about.
- Extract from : « Brand Blotters » by William MacLeod Raine
- The attacker or attackers, if from the Indian encampment, probably returned there.
- Extract from : « A Mating in the Wilds » by Ottwell Binns
- The attacker's conning-tower was smashed, and she sank at once with all hands.
- Extract from : « The Story of Our Submarines » by John Graham Bower
- As is usual in such debates, the attacked and the attacker often changed their ground.
- Extract from : « The Growth of a Soul » by August Strindberg
- Greeting to you, Osbert, nithing and attacker of little children.
- Extract from : « Wulnoth the Wanderer » by Herbert Escott-Inman
- The moral impulse which estimates the attacker is everything.
- Extract from : « Battle Studies » by Charles-Jean-Jacques-Joseph Ardant du Picq
- Then like a flash the horns are swept sideways and the attacker pierced.
- Extract from : « Life of Frederick Courtenay Selous, D.S.O. » by J.G. Millais
- With it, he thought, he could blind the attacker and at the same time get a shot at him.
- Extract from : « The Caves of Fear » by John Blaine
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