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Word entry · 10 letters

aggression

Best crossword clue

"Hostile attack"

10 letters · collected on this word page

10 lettersPronunciation /əˈɡɹɛʃən/Part of speech nounSorted aegginorssStarts with AEnds with N1 cluesVery common crossword word
1A2G3G4R5E6S7S8I9O10N

Definitions

  1. violent action that is hostile and usually unprovoked

Word origin

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

Used in a sentence

  • Control, dispossession, violence, and tyranny are not “defensive”: they are part of an organized, ongoing aggression.
  • The decision to impose a steel and aluminum tariff is an act of aggression which makes trade war between the two pillars of the West a grim possibility.

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