aggress

From Latin aggressum, past participle of aggredi (“to attack, assail, approach, go to”), from ad (“to”) + gradi (“to walk, go”), from gradus (“step”); see grade.

aggress (uncountable)

1. Aggression. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

aggress (third-person singular simple present aggresses, present participle aggressing, simple past and past participle aggressed)

1. (transitive) To set upon; to attack.
2. (intransitive, construed with on) To commit the first act of hostility or offense against; to begin a quarrel or controversy with someone; to make an attack against someone.

• microaggress

• aggression
• aggressive
• aggressiveness
• aggressor

• aggress in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• aggress in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

• saggers, seggars