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English Dictionary: aggressor by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
aggressor
n
  1. someone who attacks [syn: attacker, aggressor, assailant, assaulter]
  2. a confident assertive person who acts as instigator
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Aggressor \Ag*gres"sor\, n. [L.: cf. F. agresseur.]
      The person who first attacks or makes an aggression; he who
      begins hostility or a quarrel; an assailant.
  
               The insolence of the aggressor is usually proportioned
               to the tameness of the sufferer.            --Ames.
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