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Verb: attack u'tak- Launch an attack or assault on; begin hostilities or start warfare with
"Hitler attacked Poland on September 1, 1939 and started World War II" - assail - Attack in speech or writing
"The editors of the left-leaning paper attacked the new House Speaker" - round, assail, lash out, snipe, assault - Take the initiative and go on the offensive
"The Serbs attacked the village at night"; "The visiting team started to attack" - aggress - Attack someone physically or emotionally
- assail, assault, set on - Set to work upon; turn one's energies vigorously to a task
"I attacked the problem as soon as I got out of bed" - Begin to injure
"The cancer cells are attacking his liver"; "Rust is attacking the metal" Noun: attack u'tak- (military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons)
"the attack began at dawn" - onslaught, onset, onrush - An offensive move in a sport or game
"they won the game with a 10-hit attack in the 9th inning" - Intense adverse criticism
"the government has come under attack" - fire, flak, flack, blast - Ideas or actions intended to deal with a problem or situation
"an attack on inflation"; "his plan of attack was misguided" - approach, plan of attack - The act of attacking
"attacks on women increased last year" - attempt - A decisive manner of beginning a musical tone or phrase
- tone-beginning - A sudden occurrence of an uncontrollable condition
"an attack of diarrhoea" - 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" - Strong criticism
"he published an unexpected attack on my work"
Derived forms: attacked, attacks, attacking See also: attacker Type of: act, affect, affliction, begin, beginning, commence, commencement, conceptualisation [Brit], conceptualization, contend, crime, criminal offence [Brit, Cdn], criminal offense [US], criticise [Brit], criticism, criticize, degeneration, devolution, fight, formulation, get, get down, knock, law-breaking, military operation, move, offence [Brit, Cdn], offense [US], op, operation, pick apart, play, set about, set out, start, start out, struggle, turn, unfavorable judgment [US], unfavourable judgment [Brit, Cdn] Antonym: defend Encyclopedia: Attack Attack, attack, skip, attack, attack offense Attack, attack, skip, attack, attack |