- [uncountable] feelings of anger and hate that may result in threatening or violent behaviour
- Video games have been blamed for causing aggression.
- Nowadays our aggression is channelled into sports.
Extra ExamplesTopics Feelingsc1- Do toy guns encourage aggression?
- It showed no aggression towards other dogs.
- a display of naked aggression
- ways of releasing pent-up aggression
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- naked
- open
- overt
- …
- act
- display
- exhibit
- express
- …
- aggression against
- aggression by
- aggression towards/toward
- …
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- [uncountable, countable] a violent attack or threats by one person against another person or by one country against another country
- unprovoked military aggression
Extra Examples- Acts of aggression against local shop owners should be reported to the police.
- Aggression by one nationality against another often leads to war.
- The president announced that the country would not tolerate foreign aggressions.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- naked
- open
- overt
- …
- act
- display
- exhibit
- express
- …
- aggression against
- aggression by
- aggression towards/toward
- …
Word Originearly 17th cent. (in the sense ‘an attack’): from Latin aggressio(n-), from aggredi ‘to attack’, from ad- ‘towards’ + gradi ‘proceed, walk’.
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