Difference between Aggress and Attack

What is the difference between Aggress and Attack?

Aggress as a noun is aggression. while Attack as a noun is an attempt to cause damage or injury to, or to somehow detract from the worth or credibility of, a person, position, idea, object, or thing, by physical, verbal, emotional, or other assault.

Aggress

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Aggression.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To set upon; to attack. To commit the first act of hostility or offense against; to begin a quarrel or controversy with; to make an attack against.

Attack

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To apply violent force to someone or something.To aggressively challenge a person, idea, etc., with words (particularly in newspaper headlines, because it typesets into less space than "criticize" or similar).To aim balls at the batsman's wicket.To set a field, or bowl in a manner designed to get wickets.To bat aggressively, so as to score runs quickly.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An attempt to cause damage or injury to, or to somehow detract from the worth or credibility of, a person, position, idea, object, or thing, by physical, verbal, emotional, or other assault.A time in which one attacks. The offence of a battle.Collectively, the bowlers of a cricket side.Any contact with the ball other than a serve or block which sends the ball across the plane of the net.The three attackmen on the field or all the attackmen of a team.The sudden onset of a disease.The amount of time it takes for the volume of an audio signal to go from zero to maximum level (e.g. an audio waveform representing a snare drum hit would feature a very fast attack, whereas that of a wave washing to shore would feature a slow attack).

Example sentence: In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.

We hope you now know whether to use Aggress or Attack in your sentence.

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