aggress
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin aggressum, past participle of aggredi (“to attack, assail, approach, go to”), from ad (“to”) + gradi (“to walk, go”), from gradus (“step”); see grade.
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Noun edit
aggress (uncountable)
- Aggression. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Verb edit
aggress (third-person singular simple present aggresses, present participle aggressing, simple past and past participle aggressed)
- (transitive) To set upon; to attack.
- (intransitive, construed with on) To commit the first act of hostility or offense against; to begin a quarrel or controversy with someone; to make an attack against someone.
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Further reading edit
- “aggress”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “aggress”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.