Meaning

5 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The act of initiating hostilities or invasion.

    Aggression, Angriff

    агре́ссияagréssija, нападе́ниеnapadénije

    агре́сіяahrésija

    the act of initiating hostilities

  2. (countable, uncountable)The practice or habit of launching attacks.

    Aggression

    агре́ссияagréssija, агресси́вностьagressívnostʹ

  3. (countable, uncountable)Hostile or destructive behavior or actions.

    Aggression

    агре́ссияagréssija, нападе́ниеnapadénije

    deliberately unfriendly behavior

  4. (countable, uncountable)A desire for confrontation and often violence; an urge to physically harm something or someone.

  5. (countable, uncountable)The initiation or threat of conflict; coercion.

Examples

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  1. We have to defend our country from the foreign aggression.

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  2. Tom had aggression issues.

    ruУ Тома были проблемы с агрессией.

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  3. The aggression was provoked by all those gratuitous insults.

    Агресія була спровокована всіма цими необов'язковими образами.

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  4. The boy's aggression is making problems.

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  5. The hyena still showed no aggression.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
act of initiating hostilities or invasion:
Русский
By meaning 2
act of initiating hostilities or invasion:
the practice or habit of launching attacks:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
act of initiating hostilities or invasion:

Origin

From Middle French aggression, from Latin aggressio, from aggressus, past participle of ag

From Middle French aggression, from Latin aggressio, from aggressus, past participle of aggredior (“to approach, address, attack”). By surface analysis, ag- + -gress + -ion.

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