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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
Charley, VC, Vietcong, bushfighter, bushwhacker, casual, guerilla, insurgent, irregular, maquis, maquisard, partisan, patriot, resistance, resistance fighter, saboteur, terrorist, underground, underground fighter
Dictionary Results for guerrilla:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
guerrilla
    n 1: a member of an irregular armed force that fights a stronger
         force by sabotage and harassment [syn: guerrilla,
         guerilla, irregular, insurgent]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Guerrilla \Guer*ril"la\, n. [Sp., lit., a little war, skirmish,
   dim. of guerra war, fr. OHG. werra discord, strife. See
   War.]
   1. An irregular mode of carrying on war, by the constant
      attacks of independent bands, adopted in the north of
      Spain during the Peninsular war.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. One who carries on, or assists in carrying on, irregular
      warfare; especially, a member of an independent band
      engaged in predatory excursions in war time.
      [1913 Webster]

   Note: The term guerrilla is the diminutive of the Spanish
         word guerra, war, and means petty war, that is, war
         carried on by detached parties; generally in the
         mountains. . . . A guerrilla party means, an irregular
         band of armed men, carrying on an irregular war, not
         being able, according to their character as a guerrilla
         party, to carry on what the law terms a regular war.
         --F. Lieder.
         [1913 Webster]

3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Guerrilla \Guer*ril"la\, a.
   Pertaining to, or engaged in, warfare carried on irregularly
   and by independent bands; as, a guerrilla party; guerrilla
   warfare.
   [1913 Webster]

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