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/əgrˈɛs/ Listen

noun

Aggress n. Aggression. (Obs.) "Their military aggresses on others."

verb

Aggress v. t. To set upon; to attack. (R.)

Aggress v. i. (past & past part. aggressed; pres. part. aggressing)

To commit the first act of hostility or offense; to begin a quarrel or controversy; to make an attack; with on.

Take the initiative and go on the offensive, as in a game.

Synonyms: attack

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Etymology of 'Aggress'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Aggress" Quotes from Famous Books

... and submission to the English Crown, might fashion the newly federated nation upon English models and give it a complexion far removed, socially as well as politically, from Republican simplicity, coupled with a disposition to aggress upon and dictate to the individual states of the Union, to ...

— Thomas Jefferson • Edward S. Ellis et. al.