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🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

袭击者

Pronunciation / Transliteration: xí jī zhě

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Assailant/əˈseɪ.lənt/
nounCEFR C1 (Advanced)Top #5400 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"警方正在全力搜捕袭击者。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A person who physically attacks another person.

    "The victim was able to provide a detailed description of her assailant to the police."
  2. 2

    A person who attacks or criticizes someone fiercely or aggressively in a non-physical context.

    "During the debate, the politician stood firm against his vocal assailants."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Old French present participle of 'assaillir' (to assault), tracing back to the Latin 'assilire', a compound of 'ad-' (to) and 'salire' (to leap). It entered the English language in the late 14th century, initially retaining the dynamic sense of one who leaps upon or physically attacks another.

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