counterattacker

noun

Definition of counterattackernext
as in predator

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  1. predator
  2. rapist
  3. assailant
Noun
  • Free from many predators and competitors, South America offered a fertile ground for adaptation and evolution.
    Scott Travers, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
  • The introduction of non-native predators to the islands, such as rodents, cats and pigs, has decimated countless avian populations.
    Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Jan. 2025
Definition of predator
Noun
  • But the hard graft of protecting vulnerable children, or prosecuting rapists, or enacting legislative change, is not what Musk is after.
    Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2025
  • The 1970s American serial killer, rapist and necrophiliac Ted Bundy—who confessed to at least 30 murders—was the talk of the town long after his execution in 1989.
    Mark Travers, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
Definition of rapist
Noun
  • Cops released photos of an unknown assailant on Saturday who punched and slashed a straphanger in the face after an argument inside a Brooklyn subway station last month.
    Nicholas Williams, New York Daily News, 5 Jan. 2025
  • The media provide updates, profile victims, and explore how the assailant, U.S. citizen and Army veteran Shamsud-Din Jabbar ...
    Matthew Continetti, National Review, 4 Jan. 2025
Definition of assailant
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