raider

raider

noun

Definition 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>

Synonyms invader, raider

Related Words initiator, instigator; ambuscader, ambusher, assailant, attacker, forayer, pillager, plunderer; hawk, jingo, jingoist, militant, militarist, war hawk, warmonger; belligerent, cobelligerent, combatant

Near Antonyms defender; dove, pacifist, peacemaker; nonbelligerent