guerrilla
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- noun
- /ɡəˈrɪlə/
:
guerrillero
- The guerrilla fighters employed surprise attacks to disrupt the enemy's supply lines.
- guerrilla warfare
- guerrilla war
- guerrilla insurgency
And I was meeting the head of the guerrilla group and the leaders and so on in Geneva.
- And I was meeting the head of the guerrilla group and the leaders and so on in Geneva.
- So they'd be like, you know, the Taliban shoot a little and then we just like our guerrillas would just like lay into them.
- Because again, history has taught us, has taught me, that the guerrillas are experts in taking advantage of ceasefires.
- And at that point, the guerrillas start lobbying gas canisters loaded with explosives into the church.
- Instead, as one historian put it, the Irish conflict was a war in which quote the guerrillas did most of the fighting and the police did most of the dying.
- Well, not really because you see, the laws of physics don't, don't change between a professional army and a guerrilla army.
- Poland sends in this badass military guerrilla fighter and he is there to prep the postal workers in case the Germans try to attack Danzig.
- I I brought it up and we we had to bring this, we drank for the finish of the guerrillas in Bolivia.
- So they are a guerrilla or a self-defense group, but they're not they're fucking traffickers.
Examples
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Much of Spain's rugged countryside fell under the control of the guerrillas north of Madrid.
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The United States armed and helped train the guerrilla fighters, called Mujahidin.
Academic text (1999) -
And I was meeting the head of the guerrilla group and the leaders and so on in Geneva.
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But West of that you have guerrilla populations.
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All of them served up the same message to the guerrilla fighters in northern Palestine.
Fiction book (1991) -
The whole towns on fire and the guerrillas are nearly here.
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Our guerrillas could have held the mountain passes for months... even years.
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In guerrilla warfare, you try to use your weaknesses as strengths.
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Thus, Chiapas, at least, remains at risk from guerrilla violence and paramilitary activity.
Academic text (1999) -
Drug traffickers, meanwhile, might use the guerrillas to divert military resources and attention away from themselves.
Academic text (1999)
Synonyms
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A person who fights against the government, often as part of a small armed group
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6.7
Actively taking part in armed fighting or war
3
8.5
A fighter who is not part of the regular army
1
9.8
A person who takes part in an armed attack to try to remove a government
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7.7
A person who fights in cities using surprise attacks and damaging property while hiding among people
Compounds
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5.5
Fighting by small mobile groups using hit-and-run attacks against larger armies in enemy territory
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6.5
A group of armed fighters who use sudden attacks against a larger army in rural areas
- Specialized
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7.7
A person who fights in cities using surprise attacks and damaging property while hiding among people
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7.7
A short unplanned show in public about political or social issues to get attention
An armed group in Bolivia that attacks government targets like roads and pipelines
How Organized
Surface Forms
Etymology
Guerrilla comes from Spanish: guerra meaning 'war' and the small ending -illa meaning 'small', so it originally meant 'small war'. That's why a guerrilla is a fighter in a small, irregular group who uses hit-and-run attacks instead of fighting as a full army.