aggress

Other forms of aggress

past tense

aggressed·

present participle

aggressing·

third person

aggresses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about aggress

What does aggress mean?

aggress means "take the initiative and go on the offensive".

How many syllables are in aggress?

aggress has 2 syllables: ag-gress. The stress falls on "gress". In IPA it is /əˈɡɹɛs/.

What is another word for aggress?

Close synonyms include attack. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is aggress a common word?

aggress is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with aggress?

4 words rhyme with aggress. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.