aggress

Questions about aggress

What is another word for aggress?

It depends which aggress you mean. In the sense “take the initiative and go on the offensive”, the synonyms are attack. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of aggress?

WordNet records no antonym for aggress. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for aggress come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of aggress

• Full entry for aggressAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for aggressWords matching from the last stressed vowel onward, grouped by syllable count.
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