raider
raider
nounDefinition of RAIDER
one that starts armed conflict against another especially without reasonable cause <villagers lived in constant fear of the raiders, who captured their women and children and sold them into slavery>
Related Words initiator, instigator; ambuscader, ambusher, assailant, attacker, forayer, pillager, plunderer; hawk, jingo, jingoist, militant, militarist, war hawk, warmonger; belligerent, cobelligerent, combatant
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