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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"

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

... always egged on by her ambitious promptings, had made himself an important figure in the senate, and had been on the eve of entering the cabinet as Colonial Secretary, when death cut short his career. A hard winter and a sharp attack of bronchitis nipped the aspiring senator in ...

— Vixen, Volume I. • M. E. Braddon

... the town with a hundred spears and a dozen of culverins—now threatened his life if he attempted it. It was a moment for a bold man. At the hour fixed Knox made his appearance. No one ventured to attack him. He preached with his usual impetuous eloquence on 'casting the buyers and sellers out of the temple,' and at its close the magistrates and council permitted the majority of the people to destroy most of the monasteries, and strip the churches and cathedral of their apparatus ...

— John Knox • A. Taylor Innes

... it—death in its fullest meaning. Haste, ply our cannon on the opening breach. Forth!—they attack the camp! Now, drive them back, Break through their gate and guards, ...

— Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIV. • Revised by Alexander Leighton

... and babies have come, you see another set of bull elephants coming out of the jungle. Why? Because some enemy might try to attack the Mammas and the babies from the back; so these bull elephants are there to guard them. You see, the Mammas and the babies are always in the middle, safe from ...

— The Wonders of the Jungle - Book One • Prince Sarath Ghosh

... flew to do Jacob's bidding. She had a terrible fear of London streets, at night, as well she might, and the open country beyond was even worse to her excited imagination. And Cherry was so pretty, so simple, so credulous, and withal so utterly defenceless should there be any sort of attack made upon her. Keziah's hands shook as she lighted the lantern; and as minutes were fast slipping away and still there was no sign of the truant, she was rather relieved than terrified to hear the sharp accents of her aunt's voice mingling with her father's deeper tones as the whole party came ...

— The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn - A Story of the Days of the Gunpowder Plot • Evelyn Everett-Green

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