COUNTERGUERRILLAS Synonyms: 44 Similar and Opposite Words

counterguerrillas

noun

variants also counterguerillas

plural of counterguerrilla

as in guerrillas

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Noun

Two decades ago, as Colombia’s army fought powerful leftist guerrillas, soldiers killed around 7,000 civilians, dressing up and planting guns on the corpses to inflate enemy body counts, a tribunal later found.

— New York Times, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2026
The atrocities committed in Chile were similar to those in Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, and Central America, where leftist movements and guerrillas were squashed with incredible brutality.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of guerrillas

Noun

After a bloody skirmish with the orcs and wild men, an imposing figure arrives on horseback, grabbing one of the warriors and hurling him at Galadriel’s approaching horse.

— Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2026
His most significant individual victory comes against Indrajit, another of Ravana’s sons and one of Lanka’s mightiest warriors.

— Tamanna Nangia, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of warriors

Noun

Given the global deployment of US troops and the frequency of its use of force, the fear was that the ICC would make US officials and soldiers vulnerable, and would reduce its freedom of military action.

— The Week UK, TheWeek, 8 Nov. 2026
The Army officer who directly supervised Wes Moore in Afghanistan says the Maryland governor never led soldiers in combat and had no troops assigned to him.

— Drew Sullins, Baltimore Sun, 8 Nov. 2026

Definition of soldiers

Noun

Officers from the Howard County Police Department assisted MSP troopers while members of the Maryland Department of Transportation State Highway Administration helped with road closures and traffic control.

— CBS News, CBS News, 7 Nov. 2026
Morley was found after troopers used roadside cameras and a helicopter to track him down and his truck got stuck in the mud.

— ABC News, ABC News, 4 Nov. 2026

Definition of troopers

Noun

New data suggest that a quarter of American servicemen may have low testosterone.

— Caroline Mimbs Nyce, New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2026
The video showed the man being accompanied by two FSB servicemen onto a plane, then in a cage in a Moscow court, which ordered him detained for nearly two months.

— CNN Money, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of servicemen

Noun

And there are the foot soldiers themselves, whose earnest dedication to honor, even within a warped and abusive framework, Sorkin and his characters can’t help respecting.

— Sara Holdren, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2026
But the current Sinaloa turf war—la narcopandemia, locals call it—has created new categories of victims, far from the foot soldiers and hit men targeted in previous spasms of violence.

— Kevin Sieff, The Atlantic, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of foot soldiers

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