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Definition of "aggress" [ag•gress]

  • To initiate an attack, war, quarrel, or fight: "America . . . guaranteed that no EC state would aggress against another” ( John J. Mearsheimer). (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "aggress" in a sentence
  • "In other words, when not permitted to express their aggression outwardly, girls 'aggress' against themselves."
  • "My complacency had vanished; suddenly I had become the aggressor, if only I had known how to "aggress"; but in her presence I was seized by an accursed shyness that paralyzed my tongue, and the things I had planned to say were left unuttered."
  • "I had become the aggressor, if only I had known how to "aggress"; but in her presence I was seized by an accursed shyness that paralyzed my tongue, and the things I had planned to say were left unuttered."