#agresiune
- To assault — To attack someone intentionally or spontaneously, resorting to physical violence, verbal threats, psychological pressure, or insults to cause harm, intimidate them, or violate their dignity and personal integrity. Broadly, the action defines any hostile or intrusive behavior that jeopardizes safety.
- Assaulting — The act of assaulting and its result; a rare and redundant verbal noun describing the dynamic act of physical or verbal attack carried out against an individual. In contemporary lexicons, this term is completely replaced by the well-established forms 'agresare' or 'agresiune'.
- Aggression — An unprovoked, illegal, and violent act, behavior, or attack directed against the physical or moral integrity of a person or against the sovereignty of a state. In criminal law, it constitutes a serious offense involving force or threats, while in international relations, it denotes the recourse to armed force by a state against another nation.
- Aggressor (female) — A female person, state, army, or entity that commits an aggression, a violent, unprovoked, and illegal attack upon an individual or a sovereign nation. As an adjective, it qualifies a military force, attitude, or female conduct deeply offensive, hostile, and prone to using force.
- Aggressology — An emerging interdisciplinary branch of criminology and psychopathology dedicated to the systematic, scientific, and experimental study of the causes, biological, psychological, and social mechanisms driving violent behaviors, acts of aggression, and the personality profile of the aggressor. Unlike victimology, it focuses heavily on analyzing violence from the perpetrator's perspective.
- Annexation — A unilateral political and legal act through which a sovereign state forcibly incorporates, attaches, or extends its sovereignty over a foreign territory without the consent of the local population or the authorities of that region. This structural phenomenon constitutes a direct violation of public international law norms, frequently generating long-standing diplomatic disputes or armed conflicts.
- Setting on — The act of egging on, urging, or setting a predatory or guard animal (especially dogs) to attack a target; by extension, the action of inciting or instigating individuals or social groups to hatred, strife, or violent actions against one another through manipulative speeches or intentional provocations.
- Attack — The act of attacking and its result; a violent offensive executed against an enemy with the purpose of destroying them or capturing a position. In sports, it represents the game phase in which a team holds the initiative and attempts to score points. In medicine, it defines the sudden and violent onset of a disease or a physiological or psychological crisis.
- Female attacker — A female person, army, country, or entity that launches an attack, offensive, or aggression; the female author of a physical or verbal assault. As an adjective, it describes a force, a predatory animal species, or a chemical substance that exhibits a destructive or aggressive action upon an environment.
- To attempt against — To commit an illegal, violent, or destructive action directed against a person's life, the integrity of a state, public order, fundamental rights, or sacred values; to attempt to destroy or bring severe prejudice to a protected legal asset. Broadly, the verb describes any form of abusive intrusion or flagrant violation of someone's freedom or peace.
- Encroachment — The act of attempting or violating, and its result; the deed through which one tries to commit a violent, destructive, or illegal action against a person, social order, an institution, or constitutional rule. In historical legal terminology, it represents the material deed or conspiracy meant to destabilize a governing structure or harm fundamental rights.
- Self-harm — A destructive act, behavior, or impulse directed consciously or unconsciously by an individual against their own person, resulting in bodily injuries, self-mutilation, or suicide attempts. In immunology, the term metaphorically describes the pathological process where the immune system erroneously attacks the body's own healthy tissues (autoimmunity).
- Self-defense — The act of defending oneself or its result; a set of measures, physical techniques, tactics, or legal arguments used by a person to protect their life, bodily integrity, rights, or dignity against an attack, aggression, or unfounded external accusations; self-defense.