Defender and Raider

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Defender noun - Someone that protects.

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Raider is an antonym for defender.

Nearby Words: defend, defence, defended, defensive, defending

Raider noun - One that starts armed conflict against another especially without reasonable cause.

Usage example: villagers lived in constant fear of the raiders, who captured their women and children and sold them into slavery

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Defender is an antonym for raider.

Nearby Words: raid, raiding

complete	complete defender	complete raider
original	original defender	original raider
noble	noble defender	noble raider
heavy	heavy defender	heavy raider
Other adjectives: poor, real, wounded, former, lone, next, occasional, fearsome.

Which gives rise to the entire raider (who do this) versus defender (who prevent this by either giving additional support to the original members, or by voting the raiders out before handing the control back to the natives) game.

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