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insurgent
in
The Impossible Knife of Memory
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- We killed four insurgents and captured four more.†
p. 116.1 *insurgents = members of an irregular armed force that fight a stronger force by sabotage and harassment
- The insurgent house sits empty, a stone's throw away.†
p. 116.6
- Dad was fighting insurgents in the mountains, but the army gave him a couple of weeks to come home and sort things out.†
p. 247.8insurgents = members of an irregular armed force that fight a stronger force by sabotage and harassment
- It was the third time in four nights that he'd woken up like that, hollering that the truck was on fire or trying to call in air support to take out a hornet's nest of insurgents.†
p. 262.4
- Maybe he went for a walk and flashbacked and he was lost somewhere walking point on a patrol through a valley of insurgents.†
p. 289.2
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) More rarely, Insurgent is used as an adjective to indicate rebelliousness.