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noun
1.
a member of a band of irregular soldiers that uses guerrilla warfare, harassing the enemy by surprise raids, sabotaging communication and supply lines, etc.
adjective
2.
pertaining to such fighters or their technique of warfare: guerrilla strongholds; guerrilla tactics.
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Antiguerrilla
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Also, guerilla.
Origin:
1800–10; < Spanish, diminutive of guerra war (< Germanic; compare war1); orig. in reference to the Spanish resistance against Napoleon; the name for the struggle erroneously taken as a personal noun
1800–10; < Spanish, diminutive of guerra war (< Germanic; compare war1); orig. in reference to the Spanish resistance against Napoleon; the name for the struggle erroneously taken as a personal noun
Related forms
guer·ril·la·ism, noun
an·ti·guer·ril·la, noun, adjective
coun·ter·guer·ril·la, adjective
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guerrilla
1809, from Sp. guerrilla "body of skirmishers, skirmishing warfare," lit. "little war," dim. of guerra "war," from a Gmc. source (cf. O.H.G. werra "strife, conflict, war;" see war). Acquired by Eng. during the Peninsular War (1808-1814), purists failed in their attempt to keep
EXPANDthis word from taking on the sense properly belonging to guerrillero "guerrilla fighter."
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