Guerrilla is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for GUERRILLA in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a member of an irregular force engaging in warfare or in the harassment of an army, also GUERILLA
• a member of a small independent group taking part in irregular fighting, typically against larger regular forces
• referring to actions or activities performed in an impromptu way, often without authorization
• member of an unofficial armed force fighting regular forces
• An irregular mode of carrying on war, by the constant attacks of independent bands, adopted in the north of Spain during the Peninsular war.
• 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.
• a member of an irregular armed force that fights a stronger force by sabotage and harassment
ADJECTIVE:
• Pertaining to, or engaged in, warfare carried on irregularly and by independent bands; as, a guerrilla party; guerrilla warfare.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a person who engages in irregular warfare especially as a member of an independent unit carrying out harassment and sabotage

Words related to GUERRILLA

guerilla9 guerrillaism15 guerrillaisms16 guerrillas11

Words that contain GUERRILLA

guerrillas11 guerrillaism15 antiguerrilla14 guerrillaisms16 antiguerrillas15 counterguerrilla19 counterguerrillas20

How to use GUERRILLA in a sentence

• If Virginia is a country in which a guerrilla resistance can be indefinitely prolonged, it is more open than the plains of Holland in comparison with the Highlands of that era.
• The guerrilla bands with their booty spread over the country, and the free-State men rose in a spirit of fierce retaliation.
• Within ten days Charles Sumner had been struck down in the Senate Chamber, and the town of Lawrence sacked by the guerrilla posse of Atchison and Sheriff Jones.
• With his sons as a nucleus, he gathered a little band of fifteen to twenty adventurers, and soon made his name a terror in the lawless guerrilla warfare of the day.
• He would maintain and indefinitely prolong a guerrilla war, of which the Seminole Indians in Florida and the negroes in Hayti afforded examples.
• During the intervening months, there was considerable fighting, though it was largely in the nature of guerrilla skirmishing.
• For the first five months, the insurgents kept their opponents busy with an almost uninterrupted series of little engagements, a guerrilla warfare.
• Guerrilla warfare is not perhaps a respectable method of fighting.
• Such they seemed to be in the Cuban revolt against the Spaniards, when Maximo Gomez and Antonio Maceo made guerrilla warfare almost a military science.
• As soon as the British got away from Charleston, they were harassed and worried by the guerrilla warriors of Marion, Sumter, and Pickens.
• The conflict thus begun was followed by serious fighting which finally dwindled into a vexatious guerrilla warfare lasting three years and costing heavily in men and money.
• The feud degenerated into a bitter legal battle and much petty guerrilla warfare on both sides.
• A score or more had taken part in the rapine and the pillage of the guerrilla warfare that has of late years been the curse of the country.
• The rain had ceased, but now and then came a dashing shower, like a scouting party, a guerrilla band sweeping through the dark.
• He had a theory of guerrilla warfare which he wanted to test.
• The majority of guerrilla leaders have always been severely tactical in their thinking.
• Anyhow, I am glad that I am an officer in the 7th Virginia and not a guerrilla leader in Missouri.
• His practice as a heyduk and a natural capacity for strategy enabled him for long to wage successful guerrilla warfare, which baffled the Turks.
• There were rumors of renewed activity on the part of the Cubapinos, but it was thought that their resistance for the future would be of a guerrilla nature.
• Failing in this, they organized guerrilla parties, and attempted to frighten the negroes from working in the field.
• Northern Mississippi again became the field for guerrilla warfare, and a source of supply to the Rebels in the field.
• Guerrilla bands were formed, of which Quantrel and similar men were the leaders.
• One of these plantation proprietors said his location was such that no guerrilla could get near it without endangering his life.
• Their united contributions to the guerrilla treasury were two watches, two revolvers, three hundred dollars in money, and their hats and overcoats.
• This speculator told me the guerrilla leader had sent him a verbal promise that the post should not be disturbed or menaced so long as the store remained there.
• Much of this article was used during the Rebellion, in efforts to break up the numerous guerrilla bands that infested the State.
• Guerrilla tactics were duly authorized for, and had been adopted by, Insurgent forces everywhere before the end of November.
• The guerrilla who called the clergyman was impatient.
• As he came downstairs the guerrilla demanded his watch and money, and then wanted to know if he was an abolitionist.
• He and the guerrilla sat down on the porch, while people were being killed through the town, and had a long talk.
• Guerrilla attacks and threatened attacks had greatly disturbed domestic politics.
• He clung to him with a death-grip, and the guerrilla, after trying in vain to break his hold, attempted to draw a knife from his belt.
• When he turned against the Marattas, they met his operations by the adoption of guerrilla tactics, to which the Maratta country was eminently adapted.
• This would be a condition of affairs which the Mexicans, pursuing their favorite system of guerrilla warfare, would probably prefer to any other.
• The system of guerrilla warfare has been indorsed by an act of the Confederate Congress, and is fully inaugurated over a large part of the South.
• Nor do guerrilla bands long confine their depredations to known enemies.
• Some of these guerrilla passages were sadly out of time and tune, and according to the humor of the hearer might either provoke a smile or start a tear.
• He was killed, however, in the following year, and from 1664 to 1738 the three thousand or more black Maroons fought the British Empire in guerrilla warfare.

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