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belligerent

Translation
belligerent
—belligerently, adv.
/beuh lij"euhr euhnt/, adj.
1. warlike; given to waging war.
2. of warlike character; aggressively hostile; bellicose: a belligerent tone.
3. waging war; engaged in war: a peace treaty between belligerent powers.
4. pertaining to war or to those engaged in war: belligerent rights.
n.
5. a state or nation at war.
6. a member of the military forces of such a state.
[1570-80; < L belliger waging war (belli-, comb. form of bellum war + ger-, base of gerere to conduct) + -ENT; r. belligerant < L belligerant- (s. of belligerans, prp. of belligerare to wage war; see -ANT)]
Syn. 2. pugnacious, truculent, combative, quarrelsome, antagonistic, contentious.

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  • Manchuria, August 1945., 1985 — On the defeat of the Japanese Quantung Army in 1945, on the liberation of the People's Republic of China and other South-East Asian countries from the Japanese agressors.