Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act of initiating hostilities or invasion.
- n. The practice or habit of launching attacks.
- n. Hostile or destructive behavior or actions.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of proceeding to hostilities or invasion; a breach of the peace or right of another or others; an assault, inroad, or encroachment; hence, any offensive action or procedure: as, an aggression upon a country, or upon vested rights or liberties.
- n. The practice of making assaults or attacks; offensive action in general.
- n. Synonyms Attack, invasion, assault, encroachment, injury, offense.
Wiktionary
- n. The act of initiating hostilities or invasion.
- n. The practice or habit of launching attacks.
- n. Hostile or destructive behavior or actions.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The first attack, or act of hostility; the first act of injury, or first act leading to a war or a controversy; unprovoked attack; assault. “
Aggressions of power.”
WordNet 3.0
- n. the act of initiating hostilities
- n. deliberately unfriendly behavior
- n. a disposition to behave aggressively
- n. a feeling of hostility that arouses thoughts of attack
- n. violent action that is hostile and usually unprovoked
Etymologies
- From French aggression, from Latin aggressio, from aggressus, past participle of aggredior ("to approach, address, attack"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I think our weakness, unfortunately, invited this aggression, but this aggression is a great opportunity to begin resuming the offensive against the terrorist groups.”
“Russians have rallied to the government's decision to punish Georgia for what it calls aggression and recognize the independence of South Ossetia and another separatist-controlled region, Abkhazia.”
“VIEW FAVORITES yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Venezuela, supplier of over 10% US oil, Cautions U.S. It May Curtail Oil Exports'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'The minister, Rafael Ramírez, said Venezuela, which is the world\'s fifth-largest oil exporter and supplies more than 10 percent of American oil imports, could act in the face of what he described as aggression by the Bush administration.”
“The minister, Rafael Ramírez, said Venezuela, which is the world's fifth-largest oil exporter and supplies more than 10 percent of American oil imports, could act in the face of what he described as aggression by the Bush administration.”
“A spokesman says Hamas would like to renew its cease-fire with Israel if the Jewish state stops what he called aggression toward the Palestinians.”
“But message these demonstrations in Iraq from the people that we've talked to has been that they feel that the world is behind them, that they feel this is the time for the world to reject what they call the aggression of the United States.”
“ARRAF: The thing is, Iraq has either been in a state of war or a state of sanctions and continued military -- what it calls aggression for almost all of the past 20 years.”
“Tuesday, saying "we've waited too long" for the international community to condemn what he described as aggression against the”
“Wednesday told the Non-Aligned Movment summit in Durban he was committed to holding free and fair elections by 1999, despite what he termed the aggression of neighbouring Uganda and Rwanda.”
“Q Despite the imposition of the sanctions, what you call the aggression by Serbia continues.”
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