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aggression

an unprovoked offensive, attack, or invasion; an encroachment: an aggression upon civil rights; overt or suppressed hostility

Not to be confused with:

egression – egress; a going out

ag·gres·sion

(ə-grĕsh′ən)

1a. Hostile or destructive behavior or attitudes: physical aggression; verbal aggression; emotional aggression.

b. Forceful, assertive, or overbearing behavior or attitudes: the aggression of a bold advertising campaign.

2. The practice or habit of taking hostile actions or launching military attacks: imperial aggression.

3. A hostile act or military attack: aggressions that led to full-scale war.

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aggression

(əˈɡrɛʃən)

1. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) an attack or harmful action, esp an unprovoked attack by one country against another

2. any offensive activity, practice, etc: an aggression against personal liberty.

3. (Psychology) psychol a hostile or destructive mental attitude or behaviour

[C17: from Latin aggression-, from aggrēdi to attack]

aggressor n

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ag•gres•sion

(əˈgrɛʃ ən)

n.

1. the action of a state in violating by force the rights of another state, particularly its territorial rights.

2. any offensive action, attack, or procedure; an inroad or encroachment.

3. the practice of making assaults or attacks; offensive action in general.

4. hostility toward or attack upon another, whether overt, verbal, or gestural.

[1605–15; < Latin aggressiō; see aggress, -tion]

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Noun	1.	aggression - a disposition to behave aggressively unfriendliness - an unfriendly disposition
	2.	aggression - a feeling of hostility that arouses thoughts of attack aggressiveness ill will, enmity, hostility - the feeling of a hostile person; "he could no longer contain his hostility"
	3.	aggression - violent action that is hostile and usually unprovoked hostility action - something done (usually as opposed to something said); "there were stories of murders and other unnatural actions" meat grinder - any action resulting in injury or destruction; "the meat grinder of politics destroyed his reputation"; "allied forces crumbled before the Wehrmacht meat grinder" violence, force - an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists); "he may accomplish by craft in the long run what he cannot do by force and violence in the short one" pillaging, plundering, pillage - the act of stealing valuable things from a place; "the plundering of the Parthenon"; "his plundering of the great authors"
	4.	aggression - the act of initiating hostilities armed combat, combat - an engagement fought between two military forces war, warfare - the waging of armed conflict against an enemy; "thousands of people were killed in the war"
	5.	aggression - deliberately unfriendly behavior behavior, conduct, doings, behaviour - manner of acting or controlling yourself provocation, aggravation, irritation - unfriendly behavior that causes anger or resentment bitchery - aggressive remarks and behavior like that of a spiteful malicious woman bullying, intimidation - the act of intimidating a weaker person to make them do something hell raising, raising hell - making trouble just for the fun of it self-assertion - the act of asserting yourself in an aggressive manner

aggression

noun

1. hostility, malice, antagonism, antipathy, aggressiveness, ill will, belligerence, destructiveness, malevolence, pugnacity Aggression is by no means a male-only trait.

2. attack, campaign, injury, assault, offence, raid, invasion, offensive, onslaught, foray, encroachment the threat of massive military aggression

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aggression

noun

1. The act of attacking:

assailment, assault, attack, attempt, offense, offensive, onrush, onset, onslaught, strike.

2. Hostile behavior:

aggressiveness, belligerence, belligerency, combativeness, contentiousness, hostility, militance, militancy.

Translations

عُدْوَان، إعْتِدَاء

agreseútok

aggression

Aggression Angriff

επιθετικότητα

agresión

agression assaut attaque

agresija

agresszió

ágengni, árásargirni

aggressione aggressivamente aggressivo aggressore

agressie agressiviteit

agresia

aggression

[əˈgreʃən] N

1. (= behaviour) → agresión f
an act of aggression → un acto de agresión

2. (= feeling) → agresividad f
aggression is not a solely masculine trait → la agresividad no es una característica únicamente masculina

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aggression

[əˈgrɛʃ^ən] n

(= attack) → agression f
an act of aggression → un acte d'agression

[person, behaviour] → agressivité f

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aggression

(= attack) → Aggression f, → Angriff m; an act of aggression → ein Angriff m, → eine aggressive Handlung

no pl → Aggression f; (= aggressiveness) → Aggressivität f; to get rid of one’s aggression → seine Aggressionen loswerden

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aggression

[əˈgrɛʃ/ən] n → aggressione f; (aggressiveness) → aggressività

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aggressive

(əˈgresiv) adjective

ready to attack or oppose; quarrelsome. He's a most aggressive boy – he is always fighting at school.

agˈgressively adverb

agˈgressiveness noun

agˈgression (-ʃən) noun

(a feeling of) hostility.

agˈgressor noun

(in a war etc) the party which attacks first.

ag·gres·sion

n. agresión, actitud y acción hostil.

aggression

n agresión f, hostilidad f

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