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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Guerrilla \Guer*ril"la\, adjective Pertaining to, or engaged in, warfare carried on irregularly and by independent bands; as, a guerrilla party; guerrilla warfare.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Guerrilla \Guer*ril"la\, noun [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.
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.
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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
guerrilla
adjective: used of independent armed resistance forces; "guerrilla warfare"; "partisan forces" [syn: {guerrilla(a)}, {guerilla(a)}, {underground}, {irregular}]
noun: a member of an irregular armed force that fights a stronger force by sabotage and harassment [syn: {guerilla}, {irregular}, {insurgent}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
19 Moby Thesaurus words for "guerrilla": Charley, VC, Vietcong, bushfighter, bushwhacker, casual, guerilla, insurgent, irregular, maquis, maquisard, partisan, patriot, resistance, resistance fighter, saboteur, terrorist, underground, underground fighter
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