3 Synonyms for « attacker »

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In another moment a knee compressed his diaphragm, and a couple of eager hands gripped his throat, but the grip of one was weaker than the other; he grasped the wrists, heard a cry of pain from his assailant, and then the spade of the navvy came whirling through the air above him, and struck something with a dull thud.
mugger
Guns were pointed, interrogations were sharp and prolonged; but no one in 1990 claimed any act of brutality by any crackdown raider.
Anybody who has been pushed or beaten, and has felt the blows, will, if other circumstances permit and the impulse is strong enough, be convinced that he has seen his assaulter and the manner of the assault.

`ADJ`	adjective	big, old, green, incomprehensible, first
`ADP`	adposition	in, to, during
`ADV`	adverb	very, tomorrow, down, where, there
`AUX`	auxiliary	is, has (done), will (do), should (do)
`CONJ`	conjunction	and, or, but
`CCONJ`	coordinating conjunction	and, or, but
`DET`	determiner	a, an, the
`INTJ`	interjection	psst, ouch, bravo, hello
`NOUN`	noun	girl, cat, tree, air, beauty
`NUM`	numeral	1, 2017, one, seventy-seven, IV, MMXIV
`PART`	particle	’s, not,
`PRON`	pronoun	I, you, he, she, myself, themselves, somebody
`PROPN`	proper noun	Mary, John, London, NATO, HBO
`PUNCT`	punctuation	., (, ), ?
`SCONJ`	subordinating conjunction	if, while, that
`SYM`	symbol	$, %, §, ©, +, −, ×, ÷, =, :), 😝
`VERB`	verb	run, runs, running, eat, ate, eating
`X`	other	sfpksdpsxmsa
`SPACE`	space
`PER`	Named person or family.
`LOC`	Name of politically or geographically defined location (cities, provinces, countries, international regions, bodies of water, mountains).
`ORG`	Named corporate, governmental, or other organizational entity.
`MISC`	Miscellaneous entities, e.g. events, nationalities, products or works of art.
`*`	wildcard	anything