aggression
[noun]
Synonyms:
- hostility, antagonism, belligerence, destructiveness, pugnacity
- attack, assault, injury, invasion, offensive, onslaught, raid

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Antonyms: resistance
Related Words: incursion, inroad, invasion, raid, irruption

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

ag‧gres‧sion /əˈɡreʃən/ noun [uncountable]
[Date: 1600-1700; Language: Latin; Origin: aggressio, from aggredi 'to attack', from ad- 'to' + gradi 'to step, go']

1. angry or threatening behaviour or feelings that often result in fighting:
Television violence can encourage aggression in children.
aggression towards
Our dogs have never shown aggression towards other dogs.

2. the act of attacking a country, especially when that country has not attacked first:
an unprovoked act of aggression
aggression against
Athenian aggression against Persia

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

aggression
noun
ADJ. extreme, intense | controlled, mild | naked, open a display of naked aggression
pent-up ways of releasing pent-up aggression
unprovoked | physical, verbal | human | external, foreign The president announced that the country would not tolerate foreign aggression.
American, British, etc. | military, police
QUANT. act Acts of aggression against local shop owners should be reported to the police.
VERB + AGGRESSION display, express, show the brutality and aggression displayed by the soldiers
channel, direct He managed to channel his aggression into sport.
control | release | encourage Do toy guns encourage aggression?
PREP. ~ against, ~ by Aggression by one nationality against another often leads to war.
towards It showed no aggression towards other dogs.

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲