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de-aggro

de-aggro is the alternative form of deaggro.

Meaning of deaggro

Verb

deaggro (third-person singular simple present deaggros or deaggroes, present participle deaggroing, simple past and past participle deaggroed)

  1. (intransitive) To become no longer aggressive towards the player's character.
    • Egotistical mage (aren't they all?) intentionally frostbolts a spectator. While we watched, he ran to the doorway where they would emerge and died a quick death at their hands. Then they deaggro'd and went back upstairs.2006 November 3, AlphaWoolf, “Re: 5 hours in UBRS and all I got was this lousy Beaststalker ...”, in alt.games.warcraft (Usenet)
    Synonyms:
    un-aggro
    Antonyms:
    aggro
  2. (transitive) To cause (a non-player character) to become no longer aggressive towards the player's character.
    • Now I'm left with a mob that they have tagged, but with enough DoTs on it that I've got aggro. They usually want ME to have to kill the thing so that they can come back and loot it. I don't care how much extra time it takes me; in this scenario I ALWAYS run until I deaggro the the^([sic]) thing.2007 April 17, Mike Gaskins, “Re: Am I just getting old?”, in alt.games.warcraft (Usenet)
    Synonyms:
    un-aggro
    Antonyms:
    aggro

Forms of de-aggro

third-person singular presentde-aggros
third-person singular presentde-aggroes
present participlede-aggroing
past participlede-aggroed
pastde-aggroed

Questions about de-aggro

What is de-aggro the alternative form of?
De-aggro is the alternative form of deaggro.

Words near de-aggro in the dictionary

  1. de-adapting
  2. de-adapts
  3. de-age
  4. de-aged
  5. de-ages
  6. de-aggro
  7. de-aging
  8. de-alate
  9. de-alates
  10. de-allergize
  11. de-allergized

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