All 5 Uses of
insurgent
in
BoneMan's Daughters
- Insurgents with the skill to remain hidden in a flat desert (likely under the sand) and take out three Humvees definitely had the brains to bug out so they could fight another day.†
Chpt 1insurgents = members of an irregular armed force that fight a stronger force by sabotage and harassment
- So then he had been taken captive by what appeared to be three insurgents or terrorists who held him either deep within a building, judging by the lack of windows, or underground, a more likely scenario.†
Chpt 3
- The convoy I was in was hit, and I was taken by some insurgents.†
Chpt 10 *
- I was taken by insurgents and forced to watch some terrible things.†
Chpt 12
- A group of insurgents tried to take out my convoy in retaliation for the coalition forces bombing Iraqi women and children.†
Chpt 13
Definitions:
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(1)
(insurgent) a member of an irregular armed force that fights a stronger force by sabotage and harassment
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, Insurgent is used as an adjective to indicate rebelliousness.