aggression
sustantivocorriente en diálogos
- Estados Unidos//əˈɡɹɛʃən//
The act of initiating hostilities or invasion.
sustantivo
- 1
The act of initiating hostilities or invasion.
Control, dispossession, violence, and tyranny are not “defensive”: they are part of an organized, ongoing aggression.
- 2
The practice or habit of launching attacks.
- 3
Hostile or destructive behavior or actions.
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.
- 4
A desire for confrontation and often violence; an urge to physically harm something or someone.
- 5
The initiation or threat of conflict; coercion.
Etimología
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *gʰredʰ-der. Latin gradior Latin aggredior Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin aggressiōder. Middle French aggressionbor. English aggression From Middle French aggression, from Latin aggressio, from aggressus, past participle of aggredior (“to approach, address, attack”). By surface analysis, ag- + -gress + -ion.
Formas
- plural
- aggressions
aggression · The act of initiating hostilities or invasion.
aggressive · Characterized by aggression; highly combative; prone to…agh · An exclamation of mild horror, disgust or frustrationaging · The process of becoming older or more mature.