Aggression

Noun

 * 1) The act of initiating hostilities or invasion.
 * 2) The practice or habit of launching attacks.
 * 3) Hostile or destructive behavior or actions.

Adjectives for Aggression
wanton; willful; jealous; conscienceless; fiery; brisk;  ruthless;  merciless;  destructive; ill-timed.

Verbs for Aggression
anger by; anticipate; avenge; bear; bulwark against; check; crush with; denounce; dread; encounter; oppose; protest against; provoke; renounce; resent; resist; save from; submit to; surrender to; wear out by; flourishes; saps; staggers; undermines.

Thesaurus
adventuresomeness; adventurousness; aggravated assault; aggressiveness; ambitiousness; amphibious attack; antagonism; armed assault; assailing; assailment; assault; attack; banzai attack; bellicism; bellicosity; belligerence; belligerency; blitz; blitzkrieg; breakthrough; charge; chauvinism; combativeness; contentiousness; counterattack; counteroffensive; coup de main; crippling attack; dead set at; descent on; diversion; diversionary attack; drive; dynamism; encroachment; enterprise; enterprisingness; ferocity; fierceness; fight; flank attack; force; forcefulness; frontal attack; gas attack; get-up-and-get; get-up-and-go; getup; go; go-ahead; go-getting; go-to-itiveness; gumption; head-on attack; hostility; hustle; incursion; infiltration; initiative; inroad; invasion; irruption; jingoism; lightning attack; lightning war; martialism; mass attack; megadeath; militancy; militarism; mugging; offense; offensive; onset; onslaught; overkill; panzer warfare; pugnaciousness; pugnacity; push; pushfulness; pushiness; pushingness; quarrelsomeness; raid; run against; run at; rush; saber rattling; sally; shock tactics; sortie; spirit; spunk; strike; truculence; unfriendliness; unpeacefulness; unprovoked assault; up-and-comingness; venturesomeness; venturousness; warmongering; warpath

Derived terms

 * war of aggression

Related terms

 * aggress
 * aggressive
 * aggressiveness
 * aggressor