Belligerent: alternatives and connections

Belonging or appropriate to an enemy; showing the disposition of an enemy; showing ill will and malevolence, or a desire to thwart and injure; occupi…

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Belonging or appropriate to an enemy; showing the disposition of an enemy; showing ill will and malevolence, or a desire to thwart and injure; occupi…

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One who acts, or takes part in any affair; a doer.

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One who does; one performs or executes; one who is wont and ready to act; an actor; an agent.

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One who, or that which, works; a laborer; a performer; as, a worker in brass.

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One who packs boxes.

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One that brawls; wrangler.

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An oily, unctuous substance obtained from cream or milk by churning.

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One who defends; one who maintains, supports, protects, or vindicates; a champion; an advocate; a vindicator.

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One who fences; one who teaches or practices the art of fencing with sword or foil.

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The male game fowl.

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Originally, a swordplayer; hence, one who fought with weapons in public, either on the occasion of a funeral ceremony, or in the arena, for public am…

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See Plum Gouger.

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A vessel having (so many) masts; -- used only in compounds; as, a two-master.

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One who fights with his fists; esp., a professional prize fighter; a boxer.

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One who skirmishes.

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More elevated in place or position; higher; upper; as, the superior limb of the sun; the superior part of an image.

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Having the quality of flexibility without brittleness; yielding to force without breaking; capable of resisting great strain; as, the ligaments of an…

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The winner in a contest; one who gets the better of another in any struggle; esp., one who defeats an enemy in battle; a vanquisher; a conqueror; --…

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One who withstands, or opposes; an opponent; a resisting power.

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One who wrestles; one who is skillful in wrestling.

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A student at Oxford who is supplied with provisions from the buttery; formerly, one who paid for nothing but what he called for, answering nearly to…

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A student at Oxford who is supplied with provisions from the buttery; formerly, one who paid for nothing but what he called for, answering nearly to…

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Alt. of Belligerency

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Alt. of Belligerency

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The quality of being belligerent; act or state of making war; warfare.

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The quality of being belligerent; act or state of making war; warfare.

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To struggle or contend, as with an opposing force; to fight.

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To struggle or contend, as with an opposing force; to fight.

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Contending; disposed to contend.

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Contending; disposed to contend.

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of Hostility

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of Hostility

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Tending or disposed to aggress; characterized by aggression; making assaults; unjustly attacking; as, an aggressive policy, war, person, nation.

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A student at Oxford who is supplied with provisions from the buttery; formerly, one who paid for nothing but what he called for, answering nearly to…

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Contending; disposed to contend.

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One who fights; a combatant; a warrior.

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Engaged in warfare; fighting; combating; serving as a soldier.

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of War

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