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Attack   /ətˈæk/   Listen
Attack

noun
1.
(military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons).  Synonyms: onrush, onset, onslaught.
2.
An offensive move in a sport or game.
3.
Intense adverse criticism.  Synonyms: blast, fire, flack, flak.  "The government has come under attack" , "Don't give me any flak"
4.
Ideas or actions intended to deal with a problem or situation.  Synonyms: approach, plan of attack.  "An attack on inflation" , "His plan of attack was misguided"
5.
The act of attacking.  Synonym: attempt.  "They made an attempt on his life"
6.
A decisive manner of beginning a musical tone or phrase.  Synonym: tone-beginning.
7.
A sudden occurrence of an uncontrollable condition.
8.
The onset of a corrosive or destructive process (as by a chemical agent).  "Open to attack by the elements"
9.
Strong criticism.
verb
(past & past part. attacked; pres. part. attacking)
1.
Launch an attack or assault on; begin hostilities or start warfare with.  Synonym: assail.  "Serbian forces assailed Bosnian towns all week"  Antonym: defend.
2.
Attack in speech or writing.  Synonyms: assail, assault, lash out, round, snipe.
3.
Take the initiative and go on the offensive.  Synonym: aggress.  "The visiting team started to attack"
4.
Attack someone physically or emotionally.  Synonyms: assail, assault, set on.  "Nightmares assailed him regularly"
5.
Set to work upon; turn one's energies vigorously to a task.
6.
Begin to injure.  "Rust is attacking the metal"



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"Attack" Quotes from Famous Books



... attended at the opening, but the attendance of all others was cruelly slack. To hear the attack, the people came in crowds; to hear the defence, they scarcely came in t'ete- 'a-t'etes! 'Tis barbarous there should be so much more pleasure given by the recital of guilt than by the vindication of ...
— The Diary and Letters of Madam D'Arblay Volume 2 • Madame D'Arblay
... few old school chums. Its symptoms were a peculiar heaving of the sidewalk, a dancing of the street lights, and a crafty shifting to and fro of the houses, requiring a very nice discrimination in selecting his own. There was a strong desire not to drink water throughout the entire attack, which showed that the thing was evidently a form of hydrophobia. From this time on, these painful attacks became chronic with Smith. They were liable to come on at any time, but especially on Saturday ...
— Literary Lapses • Stephen Leacock
... are raised—the second resurrection. Under Satan's leadership they march up to attack the city of God. How naturally, we infer, may Satan persuade the lost that, after all, he was right when he declared to Adam, "Ye shall not surely die." Here are all his servants of all the ages—living. Why may they not ...
— Our Day - In the Light of Prophecy • W. A. Spicer
... lad." Darius was pleased with himself, his men, and his acquisition. He was in one of his moods when he could charm; he was jolly, and he held up his chin. Two days before, so interested had he been in the Demy Columbian, he had actually gone through a bilious attack while scarcely noticing it! And now the whole complex operation had been brought to a ...
— Clayhanger • Arnold Bennett
... I should here give to the public any lengthened biography of Mr. Harding up to the period of the commencement of this tale. The public cannot have forgotten how ill that sensitive gentleman bore the attack that was made on him in the columns of "The Jupiter," with reference to the income which he received as warden of Hiram's Hospital, in the city of Barchester. Nor can it yet be forgotten that a lawsuit ...
— Barchester Towers • Anthony Trollope


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