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noun
One engaged in diversionary, disruptive, or subversive activities.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A person who deviates politically.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: saboteur, wrecker
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Broader terms: destroyer, ruiner, undoer, waster, uprooter
Narrower terms: sleeper
History
From diversion + -ist; first attested c. 1937.
Across languages
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