Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Hostile or destructive behavior or attitudes.
- noun The practice or habit of taking hostile actions or launching military attacks.
- noun A hostile act or military attack.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun 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.
- noun The practice of making assaults or attacks; offensive action in general.
- noun Synonyms Attack, invasion, assault, encroachment, injury, offense.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun 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.”
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of initiating
hostilities orinvasion . - noun The practice or habit of launching
attacks . - noun
Hostile ordestructive behavior or actions.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of initiating hostilities
- noun deliberately unfriendly behavior
- noun a disposition to behave aggressively
- noun a feeling of hostility that arouses thoughts of attack
- noun violent action that is hostile and usually unprovoked
Etymologies
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Examples
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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.
Archive 2008-08-01 Jan 2008
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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.
Kasparov Comments on Miniputin's Misstep in Georgia Jan 2008
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I think our weakness, unfortunately, invited this aggression, but this aggression is a great opportunity to begin resuming the offensive against the terrorist groups.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Tuesday, saying "we've waited too long" for the international community to condemn what he described as aggression against the
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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.
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