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attack English

Meaning attack meaning

What does attack mean?
Definitions in simple English

attack Verb

— To begin fighting with. — To blame or abuse violently. — To try to destroy, especially with words.

attack Noun

— An attack is the act of trying to hurt somebody or break something.

attack

— verb (= assail) launch an attack or assault on; begin hostilities or start warfare with Hitler attacked Poland on September 1, 1939 and started World War II Serbian forces assailed Bosnian towns all week — noun (military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons) the attack began at dawn — verb attack in speech or writing The editors of the left-leaning paper attacked the new House Speaker — verb take the initiative and go on the offensive The Serbs attacked the village at night The visiting team started to attack — verb (= assail, assault) attack someone physically or emotionally The mugger assaulted the woman Nightmares assailed him regularly — noun an offensive move in a sport or game they won the game with a 10-hit attack in the 9th inning — noun (= fire, flak) intense adverse criticism Clinton directed his fire at the Republican Party the government has come under attack don't give me any flak — noun a decisive manner of beginning a musical tone or phrase — noun (= attempt) the act of attacking attacks on women increased last year they made an attempt on his life — verb set to work upon; turn one's energies vigorously to a task I attacked the problem as soon as I got out of bed — noun (= approach, plan of attack) ideas or actions intended to deal with a problem or situation his approach to every problem is to draw up a list of pros and cons an attack on inflation his plan of attack was misguided — noun strong criticism he published an unexpected attack on my work — verb begin to injure The cancer cells are attacking his liver Rust is attacking the metal — noun a sudden occurrence of an uncontrollable condition an attack of diarrhea — noun the onset of a corrosive or destructive process (as by a chemical agent) the film was sensitive to attack by acids open to attack by the elements

Synonyms attack synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as attack?

attack English » English

assault assail aggression strike charge raid invade beat onslaught offensive fight hit fit fall upon access invasion storm aggress seizure onset offence offense criticism stroke outrage onrush injure fire encounter criticize attempt advance tackle strafe set on rush upon oppose insult hurt blast blame besiege approach ambush abuse thrust throw oneself at rush rip rap

Topics attack topics

What do people use attack to talk about?
Social behavior Conflict Fight

Attack
Language and thought Communication Say

Criticize
Person Healthy

Disease
Person Healthy Symptom of disease

Pain
Social behavior Conflict Fight Attack

Ambush
Person Body Internal organs

Heart
Person Healthy

Sick
Language and thought Emotion Feel bad Afraid

Worried

Conjugation attack conjugation

How do you conjugate attack?

attack · verb

Examples attack examples

How do I use attack in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Wolves won't usually attack people.
When one nation pursues a nuclear weapon, the risk of nuclear attack rises for all nations.
Wolves don't usually attack people.
We're under attack!
Tom survived the attack.
Russia is under attack.
We prepared for an attack.
After our first attack, the enemy fled.
If UFOs were to attack the earth, what would become of us?
Do you know John's father died of a heart attack?
It could attack us at any moment.
The talented young chess player is very bold. He deliberately lays himself open to attack, makes himself vulnerable and then checkmates his opponent when least expected.
He's going to have a heart attack.
Attack is the best form of defense.
The first attack missed the target.
Macbeth raised an army to attack his enemy.
In Germany today, anti-violence rallies took place in several cities, including one near Hamburg where three Turks were killed in an arson attack on Monday.
Smith died of a heart attack.
This country is safe from attack.

Movie subtitles

Begin the attack!
How can he order you to come to the Government office at night and attack?
How can Governmental officers conspire with bandits and attack the office?
Just attack that guy!
Do you know the signs and symptoms of the dreaded panic attack?
My husband, Oscar, died in my arms. of a heart attack.
It cites heart attack, a result of invasive brain cancer.
The attack was massive, apparently.
As in giving you a heart attack? Mince all the way.
You want to give me heart attack?
I had a panic attack, but I'm glad you had fun.
Second wave of attack, coming from the eastern sector!
The next morning, the Turks began their attack.
After besieging Jerusalem for months, Saladin gave the order to attack.
The African chasseurs went around the smalah to take it from the rear while Colonel Yusuf launched a frontal attack.
My subcutaneous fat can envelop any kind of attack they throw at me like child's play.
The state highway is riddled with signs of an attack, and after we had followed those signs, we came upon this scene of devastation, which could be mistaken for a battlefield.
Are you suggesting that we ordered that attack?
Perhaps. Have we any idea how the Blessed are coordinating their attack?
Such a monotonous mode of attack.
How'd you like my blitz attack?
You know how it is. Under attack by the Guardians.
You're wrong about that attack.
You think they're planning to launch an attack?
The attack began!
Such lightning strikes, such virtuosity in attack.
Donbass launches the attack.
Yeah, they didn't even attack us face-to-face.
I heard you're planning to attack bud and youssef.
Do you think they'll try another attack?
Plus, they're scared about another attack.
Explosion attack?
The North. has announced that they are going to attack Seoul.
It's war. The United States has declared that they'll attack Pyeongyang, then. Pyeongyang will immediately attack Seoul.
Did he get a heart attack while being too happy?
The attack.
The Russian attack at the Green Mountains.
A Turkish attack.

News and current affairs

China, for example, would lose from an attack that severely damaged the American economy, and vice versa.
To the extent that false flags are imperfect and rumors of the source of an attack are widely deemed credible (though not legally probative), reputational damage to an attacker's soft power may contribute to deterrence.
Both EU and NATO membership make war among European member states unthinkable, and an attack on even the smallest NATO member would bring a response from all NATO members.
NATO troops should be given the green light to help the Afghan army fight opium - destroy the heroin labs, disband the opium bazaars, attack the opium convoys, and bring the big traders to justice.
For them, Jewish settlements in the territories are not a return to historical lands, but security outposts, aimed at preventing - or repelling from a better strategic position - an attack on the Israeli heartland.
All the details of the attack were provided in advance by the US, now Poland's NATO ally.
A military attack on Iran's nuclear facilities is too dangerous, and its results uncertain.
Racism and anti-immigrant sentiments are an important part of the attack on the poor, or at least the reason why so many are willing to heed the propaganda against helping the poor.
The US then backed Saddam Hussein in his attack on Iran, until the US ended up attacking Saddam himself.
A first-use of nuclear weapons by the US should be unthinkable, and responding to a non-nuclear attack with nuclear weapons violates a central tenet of just war and US military tradition.
Some Arab monarchs have pledged to bankroll the US attack - an investment that they would easily recover, given that the war talk has already increased oil prices.
In 1896, future President Theodore Roosevelt was a Republican attack dog.
After all, the very success of that attack meant that such limited intervention could never be repeated, because would-be proliferators learned to bury, hide, or duplicate their nascent weapons programs.
This raises the spectre of street fighting through Baghdad, desperate use of biological or chemical weapons, an attack to draw in Israel, numerous military and civilian deaths and the further destruction of a ravaged society.
While accurate attribution of the ultimate source of a cyber attack is sometimes difficult, the determination does not have to be airtight.
The Boston Globe, for example, ran an article about the man - identified only by his first name, Danny - whom the brothers carjacked three days after the attack.
As the intense US debate about President Barack Obama's proposed use of military force highlights, the attack-Syria push is not about upholding America's national interest.
Indeed, an attack would most likely increase America's reliance on unsavory Islamist rulers in countries ranging from Saudi Arabia and Qatar to Turkey and the United Arab Emirates.
They must be conducted either in self-defense after an attack, or in anticipatory self-defense against an immediate threat, when taking time to discuss non-lethal alternatives is not feasible.
It is this God that atheists like Dawkins and Hitchens attack.
Implicit threats of a unilateral Israeli attack, together with conspicuous meddling in the US presidential election campaign, have compounded Netanyahu's effort to twist Obama's arm.
China and Russia would never allow the US to secure a United Nations mandate for an attack.

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