Today's Word "aggress"
To make an attack
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aggress \uh-GRES\ (intransitive verb) - To commit the first act of hostility or offense; to make an attack.
"No, sir. We know they exist, of course, because we trade with them for chairs and bottles, and we know there are tmes we face away from certain places because they might be there and if we don't see them, we won't aggress because we have the non-aggression agreement with them." -- Sherri S. Tepper, 'The Visitor'
Aggress is from French agresser, from Latin aggredi, aggress-, "to approach, to approach aggressively, to attack," from ad-, "to" + gradi, "to step, to walk."
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