Meaning of AGGRESSION
| Pronunciation: | | u'greshun
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- [n] violent action that is hostile and usually unprovoked
- [n] deliberately unfriendly behavior
- [n] the act of initiating hostilities
- [n] a disposition to behave aggressively
- [n] a feeling of hostility that arouses thoughts of attack
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| | Synonyms: | | aggressiveness, hostility |
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| | See Also: | | action, aggravation, armed combat, behavior, behaviour, bitchery, bullying, combat, conduct, doings, enmity, force, hell raising, hostility, ill will, intimidation, irritation, meat grinder, pillage, pillaging, plundering, provocation, raising hell, self-assertion, unfriendliness, violence, war, warfare | |
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| | Definition: | | \Ag*gres"sion\, n. [L. aggressio, fr. aggredi: cf. F.
agression.]
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; as, a war of aggression.
``Aggressions of power.'' --Hallam
Syn: Attack; offense; intrusion; provocation.
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| | Related Terms: | | adventuresomeness, adventurousness, aggravated assault, aggressiveness, ambitiousness, amphibious attack, antagonism, armed assault, assailing, assailment, assault, attack, banzai attack, bellicism, bellicosity, belligerence, belligerency, blitz, blitzkrieg, breakthrough, charge, chauvinism, combativeness, contentiousness, counterattack, counteroffensive, coup de main, crippling attack, dead set at, descent on, diversion, diversionary attack, drive, dynamism, encroachment, enterprise, enterprisingness, ferocity, fierceness, fight, flank attack, force, forcefulness, frontal attack, gas attack, getup, get-up-and-get, get-up-and-go, go, go-ahead, go-getting, go-to-itiveness, gumption, head-on attack, hostility, hustle, incursion, infiltration, initiative, inroad, invasion, irruption, jingoism, lightning attack, lightning war, martialism, mass attack, megadeath, militancy, militarism, mugging, offense, offensive, onset, onslaught, overkill, panzer warfare, pugnaciousness, pugnacity, push, pushfulness, pushiness, pushingness, quarrelsomeness, raid, run against, run at, rush, saber rattling, sally, shock tactics, sortie, spirit, spunk, strike, truculence, unfriendliness, unpeacefulness, unprovoked assault, up-and-comingness, venturesomeness, venturousness, warmongering, warpath |
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