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guerrilla
[ guh-ril-uh ]
noun
- 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
- pertaining to such fighters or their technique of warfare: guerrilla tactics.
guerrilla strongholds;
guerrilla tactics.
- of or relating to an unauthorized, edgy, or disruptive version of an activity: guerilla gardening to beautify an abandoned lot.
guerrilla filmmaking on a busy sidewalk;
guerilla gardening to beautify an abandoned lot.
guerrilla
/ ɡəˈɪə /
noun
- a member of an irregular usually politically motivated armed force that combats stronger regular forces, such as the army or police
- ( as modifier )
guerrilla warfare
- a form of vegetative spread in which the advance is from several individual rhizomes or stolons growing rapidly away from the centre, as in some clovers Compare phalanx
Derived Forms
- ܱˈ, noun
Other Word Forms
- ܱ··· noun
- ·پ·ܱ·· noun adjective
- dzܲ·ٱ·ܱ·· adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of guerrilla1
Word History and Origins
Origin of guerrilla1
Example Sentences
In his late teens, he grew interested in Central America, where the U.S. was funding military efforts against leftist guerrillas in El Salvador and the revolutionary Sandinista government in Nicaragua.
Peruvian officials maintained that the journalists had been killed by indigenous villagers who had mistaken the journalists for members of the Maoist Shining Path guerrilla group.
Industry publication Screen Daily said the film was "shot, one suspects, with a touch of guerrilla ingenuity... Last Swim also has a palpably improvised component in the friends' genially pitched running banter."
Another farmer, David Lemon, said hare coursing has become like "guerrilla warfare" in his area on the Wiltshire-Hampshire border.
India’s independence movement was closely aligned with Ireland's, for example, and explicitly modeled on the combination of civil disobedience and guerrilla warfare that won Irish independence in the 1920s.
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