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Guerilla

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Noun

1. guerilla, guerrilla, insurgent, irregular

a member of an irregular armed force that fights a stronger force by sabotage and harassment

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Guerilla

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noun
1. 
a. 
a member of an irregular usually politically motivated armed force that combats stronger regular forces, such as the army or police
b. 
(as modifier)
guerrilla warfare
2. 
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

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Guerilla

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noun
1.  Archaic
warfare carried on by guerrillas
2. 
any member of a small defensive force of irregular soldiers, usually volunteers, making surprise raids, esp. behind the lines of an invading enemy army
adjective
3. 
of or by guerrillas
4. 
characteristic of guerrillas; undercover, clandestine, etc. or radical, subversive, etc.

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Guerilla

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n.
Variant of guerrilla.

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