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guerrilla

or ²µ³Ü±ð·°ù¾±±ô·±ô²¹

[ guh-ril-uh ]

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

  1. pertaining to such fighters or their technique of warfare: guerrilla tactics.

    guerrilla strongholds;

    guerrilla tactics.

  2. 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

/ ɡəˈ°ùɪ±ôÉ™ /

noun

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

      guerrilla warfare

  1. 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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Derived Forms

  • ²µ³Ü±ð°ùˈ°ù¾±±ô±ô²¹¾±²õ³¾, noun
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • ²µ³Ü±ð°ù·°ù¾±±ô·±ô²¹Â·¾±²õ³¾ noun
  • ²¹²Ô·³Ù¾±Â·²µ³Ü±ð°ù·°ù¾±±ô·±ô²¹ noun adjective
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of guerrilla1

First recorded in 1800–10; from Spanish, diminutive of guerra “war†(of Germanic origin) + -illa diminutive suffix; originally in reference to the Spanish resistance against Napoleon; the name for the struggle erroneously taken as a personal noun; war 1, -elle
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of guerrilla1

C19: from Spanish, diminutive of guerra war
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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."

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Another farmer, David Lemon, said hare coursing has become like "guerrilla warfare" in his area on the Wiltshire-Hampshire border.

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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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Coca in Colombia has historically been more heavily criminalized than either Peru or Bolivia given how there’s less cultural tradition and the plant is almost exclusively grown for the narco-business, violent paramilitaries and guerrillas.

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The court has previously heard Rhianan downloaded bomb manuals, guides on guerrilla warfare and media glorifying white supremacy and Nazism.

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