offender vs assailant

assailant vs offender

offender and assailant both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
offender	Yes	No	No	No
assailant	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, assailant is a hyponym of offender; that is, assailant is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than offender:

offender: a person who transgresses moral or civil law
assailant: someone who attacks

Other hyponyms of offender include abuser, maltreater, aggressor, assaulter, attacker, barrater, barrator, convict, beguiler, cheat, cheater, deceiver, slicker, trickster, delinquent, juvenile delinquent, defector, deserter, ganef, ganof, gonif, goniff, transgressor, malfeasant, molester, no-show, nonattender, truant, culprit, perpetrator, fancy man, pandar, pander, panderer, pimp, ponce, procurer, principal, backslider, recidivist, reversionist, miscreant, reprobate, shark, pettifogger, shyster, evildoer, sinner, supplanter, usurper, war criminal.

offender (noun)	assailant (noun)
a person who transgresses moral or civil law	someone who attacks

Difference between offender and assailant

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