aggress

== English == === Etymology === 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. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /əˈɡɹɛs/ Rhymes: -ɛs === Noun === aggress (uncountable) Aggression. === Verb === 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. ==== Derived terms ==== microaggress ==== Related terms ==== aggression aggressive aggressiveness aggressor ==== Further reading ==== “aggress”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “aggress”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. === Anagrams === saggers, seggars