agresser
French, verb/a.ɡʁɛ.se/
agresser is spelled A-G-R-E-S-S-E-R (8 letters) and appears 3.8 times per million words in written French, the 13,537th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Agresser is a French verb meaning “to assault; to attack” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Entamer par la force, par la contrainte, par la surprise ou par la ruse l’intégrité physique, psychologique…”.
What does agresser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to assault; to attack
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Entamer par la force, par la contrainte, par la surprise ou par la ruse l’intégrité physique, psychologique ou sexuelle d’une personne.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of agresser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- agressant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- agressé participle past
- agresse first-person indicative present
- agresses indicative present second-person
- agressons first-person indicative plural
- agressez indicative plural present
- agressent indicative plural present
- agressais first-person imperfect indicative
- agressait imperfect indicative singular
- agressions first-person imperfect indicative
- agressiez imperfect indicative plural
- agressaient imperfect indicative plural
- agressai first-person historic indicative
- agressas historic indicative past
- agressa historic indicative past
- agressâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce agresser?
- /a.ɡʁɛ.se/
- /a.ɡʁe.se/
- \a.ɡʁe.se\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to agresser
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is agresser in French?
agresser appears 3.8 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).