aggress

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But what if all the research paints a completely different picture, showing heterosexual women are equally likely to aggress, and the highest rates of battering are found among lesbians?

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  1. intransitive verb To initiate an attack, war, quarrel, or fight: "America . . . guaranteed that no EC state would aggress against another” (John J. Mearsheimer).

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  • Freedom means being able to think and do whatevery you want, so long as you do not aggress against the freedom of another individual. —  Mises Dailies
  • The hardest thing about being a little white person is admitting that we are offered the opportunity to bully people of color under the protection of a ruling class that does not want us to aggress against them. —  AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
  • But the treaties were evidences of Britain's attempts to aggress Tibet that was part of China, the article wrote.
  • And, if push comes to shove, they want a global dysentary of US dollars into every global market to seem like the "sane" alternative to what they could do WHEN Walnuts and Caribou Barbie aggress. —  Editorials from Hell's leading daily newspaper
  • So, no, Walnuts, no Caribou Barbie, you don't get to aggress. —  Editorials from Hell's leading daily newspaper
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. French agresser, from Latin aggredī, aggress-, to attack : ad-, ad- + gradī, to go; see ghredh- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin aggressus, past participle of aggredi, adgredi, attack, assail, approach, go to, from ad, to, + gradi, walk, go, later gradus, step: see grade.
  2. from Old French aggresse, from Latin aggressus, adgressus, an attack, from aggredi, adgredi: see aggress, v.
 

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