Aggression Definition

ə-grĕshən
noun
An unprovoked attack or warlike act; specif., the use of armed force by a state in violation of its international obligations.
Webster's New World
The practice or habit of taking hostile actions or launching military attacks.
Imperial aggression.
American Heritage
The practice or habit of being aggressive or quarrelsome.
Webster's New World
A hostile act or military attack.
Aggressions that led to full-scale war.
American Heritage
Forceful, attacking behavior, either constructively self-assertive and self-protective or destructively hostile to others or to oneself.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Aggression

Noun

Singular:
aggression
Plural:
aggressions

Origin of Aggression

  • From French aggression, from Latin aggressio, from aggressus, past participle of aggredior (“to approach, address, attack”).

    From Wiktionary

Aggression Sentence Examples

  • The leaders of the national movement prepared to resist further aggression by force.

  • His kiss had been an act of aggression, not passion.

  • It was bound to protect itself ArSSCId against Scythian aggression in the East and Empire.

  • The two countries were thus once more united and better able to resist aggression, but some of the great nobles were discontented and Basil hoped with their assistance to attain his ends.

  • Unfortunately for the success of her schemes she had to reckon with stronger states which were anxious to check the Russian advance, and which were determined, in the event of aggression, to have a share of the plunder.

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