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belligerent

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
belligerent/bəˈlɪʤərənt/

▶adjective hostile and aggressive.

■ engaged in a war or conflict.

▶noun a nation or person engaged in war or conflict.

– derivatives
belligerently adverb.

– origin C16: from L. belligerant-, belligerare ‘wage war’, from bellum ‘war’.

'belligerent' also found in these Oxford entries:

co-belligerent - harridan - mix - non-belligerent - parole - right of search

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