COUNTERAGGRESSION Synonyms: 54 Similar and Opposite Words

counteraggression

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Definition of counteraggression

as in counterassault

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Noun

The 77-minute siege ended with a counterassault led by a SWAT team from the US Border Patrol.

— ABC News, ABC News, 13 Feb. 2023
Another risk is that Russia’s invasion and the West’s financial counterassault could prove more economically disruptive than the pandemic.

— Nick Timiraos, WSJ, 26 Aug. 2022

Definition of counterassault

Noun

While dealing with an impending counterattack from Oda, Murashige finds that trouble stirs in his own courts as mysterious deaths, from a child prisoner to other officials, end up mysteriously murdered.

— Zachary Lee, IndieWire, 27 July 2026
Bouanga's pass then set Martínez loose on a counterattack with Son in injury time, and Martínez buried his sixth goal.

— ABC News, ABC News, 26 July 2026

Definition of counterattack

Noun

Syrskyi got the job after the 2023 counteroffensive failed, and the-then top commander, Valerii Zaluzhnyi, was moved to London as Ukraine’s ambassador.

— Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 22 July 2026
Seven months later, Syrskyi was credited with orchestrating the counteroffensive in the Kharkiv region, one of the most significant Ukrainian victories in the war.

— ABC News, ABC News, 21 July 2026

Definition of counteroffensive

Noun

Aside from individual citizens concerned about their own data, communities also worry the data could be accessed by government organizations like ICE and used to track and ambush immigrants in their neighborhoods, or to keep tabs on their community.

— Irene Wright, USA Today, 21 July 2026
Pogačar went into the race as winner of the past two editions, but he was undone by a Jumbo-Visma masterclass on the slopes of the Col du Galibier, an epic ambush that paved the way for Vingegaard’s devastating attack on the Granon.

— Chris Marshall-Bell, New York Times, 19 July 2026

Definition of ambush

Noun

Prosecutors said the elder Gray gave his son the assault-style rifle used to open fire at the school.

— ABC News, ABC News, 24 July 2026
City Councilmember Rowena Brown said she was punched, choked and dragged by her hair through her downtown Oakland apartment over the weekend by an acquaintance who is now charged with felony counts of assault, robbery and false imprisonment.

— Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 23 July 2026

Definition of assault

Noun

The new district snakes up through Kansas City’s urban core, in an attempt to create a district more favorable for Republicans in the 5th District.

— Jack Harvel July 28, Kansas City Star, 28 July 2026
The new scheme is the latest in a series of attempts by officials to lure back tourists.

— Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN Money, 28 July 2026

Definition of attempt

Noun

What if Penelope’s waiting is her own form of aggression, a way of holding a space, for as long as possible, that excludes the men and their own attempts at power?

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 July 2026
When scientists temporarily disabled mole-rats’ olfactory sensory neurons with chemicals, the aggression towards strangers disappeared.

— Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 21 July 2026

Definition of aggression

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