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micro-aggress

micro-aggress is the alternative form of microaggress.

Meaning of microaggress

Verb

microaggress (third-person singular simple present microaggresses, present participle microaggressing, simple past and past participle microaggressed)

  1. (intransitive) To perform one or more acts of microaggression.
    • Every chapter presents an integrated "way forward" section that provides practical steps that we ourselves can take in order to better understand and control our own tendency to microaggress.2010, Derald Wing Sue, Microaggressions in Everyday Life: Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation, →ISBN, Forward
  2. (transitive) To perform one or more acts of microaggression directed at (someone).
    • You are microaggressing me and it is not okay. Period. End of story.2011 April 12, Nellie, "I Wear Heels, Stop Judging Me," ourwiredlives.com (retrieved 23 Feb 2014)

Forms of micro-aggress

third-person singular presentmicro-aggresses
present participlemicro-aggressing
past participlemicro-aggressed
pastmicro-aggressed

Questions about micro-aggress

What is micro-aggress the alternative form of?
Micro-aggress is the alternative form of microaggress.

Words near micro-aggress in the dictionary

  1. micro scale
  2. micro scales
  3. micro trenching
  4. Micro$oft
  5. micro-
  6. micro-aggress
  7. micro-aggressed
  8. micro-aggresses
  9. micro-aggressing
  10. Micro-Altaic
  11. micro-amp

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