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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"
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



... this valley flows a discoloured river, which reluctantly throws itself into the pestilential lake by which it is engulfed. Its course amid the sands can be distinguished only by the willows and the reeds that border it; among which the Arab lies in ambush to attack the traveller and to ...
— Palestine or the Holy Land - From the Earliest Period to the Present Time • Michael Russell
... governor of a prison in England and here began the great work of his life in a frontal attack on the corruptions he discovered. The yardsmen did a secret traffic in all the goods forbidden in the prison, there were caches of tobacco, spirits and such things under the pavements, the weaker prisoners were robbed ...
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton • Maisie Ward
... night Lady Elgin, though apparently little alarmed at the time, never recovered. Two months afterwards, in giving birth to a daughter, now Lady Elma Thurlow, she was seized with violent convulsions, which were nearly fatal; and though, to the surprise of the medical men, she rallied from this attack, her health was seriously impaired, and she died in the summer of the ...
— Letters and Journals of James, Eighth Earl of Elgin • James, Eighth Earl of Elgin
... He thought a moment and then carefully removed the dressmaker's form and hid it behind a packing-case. But the sight of Skippy's dancing companion brought forth a fresh attack of hysterics. Then he had recourse to water and a dripping oily sponge. The sight of this so affected Tootsie that she rose precipitately and staggered to a chair. Skippy at once abandoned the sponge and sympathetically proffered ...
— Skippy Bedelle - His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete - Man of the World • Owen Johnson
... remarks. Eleanore wanted to go home too, but Gertrude whispered to her in her imperious way and told her to stay. Familiar as she was with Gertrude's disposition, she thought that it was simply a passing attack of some kind, and regained ...
— The Goose Man • Jacob Wassermann


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