aggress
/əˈɡɹɛs/
aggress noun: aggression.
Noun
aggress (uncountable)
- Aggression.
- his aggress / Was made with such precaution as to quench / Douay's intent and throw him in a mess.1875, anonymous author, Eighteen Hundred and Seventy: a poem
Verb
aggress (third-person singular simple present aggresses, present participle aggressing, simple past and past participle aggressed)
- To set upon; to attack.
- To commit the first act of hostility or offense against; to begin a quarrel or controversy with someone; to make an attack against someone.
aggress meaning in Urdu
aggress in Urdu
- حَملے میں پہَل کَرنا, چَڑھائی کَرنا, چھیڑ کَرنا, جارحیت کرنا
Forms of aggress
| third-person singular present | aggresses |
|---|---|
| present participle | aggressing |
| past participle | aggressed |
| past | aggressed |
Origin of aggress
From Latin aggressum, past participle of aggredi (“to attack, assail, approach, go to”), from ad (“to”) + gradi (“to walk, go”), from gradus (“step”); see grade.
Words formed from aggress
Words that rhyme with aggress
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- SMS
- success
- compress
- largesse
- ness
- profess
- confess
- distress
- regress
- depress
- excess
- guess
- prepossess
- undress
- CBS
- ingress
- oppress
- redress
- transgress
- assess
- cess
- duress
- fess
- fluoresce
- Hesse
- less
- mayoress
- obsess
- tress
- unless
- yes
- accresce
- acquiesce
- BESS
- caress
- clothes press
- congress
- defervesce
- digress
- ess
- foulness
- Hess
- intumesce
- jess
- lazy S
- liquesce
- repress
- second-guess
Questions about aggress
- What does aggress mean?
- Aggress means aggression.
- What is aggress in Urdu?
- Aggress in Urdu is حَملے میں پہَل کَرنا, چَڑھائی کَرنا, چھیڑ کَرنا. See Aggress meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is aggress?
- Aggress can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce aggress?
- Aggress is pronounced /əˈɡɹɛs/.
Words near aggress in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: aggress (page history and authors); aggress (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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