Results for attack
Definitions of attack:
part of speech: verb intransitive
part of speech: noun
A falling upon with violence; satire; unfriendly criticism.
part of speech: verb transitive
To fall upon violently: to assault: to assail with unfriendly words or writing.
part of speech: noun
An assault or onset: severe criticism or calumny.
part of speech: verb transitive
To assault; fall upon with force; assail with intent to overcome, or to damage, discredit, or bring into ridicule; begin to affect or act upon, as disease.
part of speech: verb
To fall upon with force or violence; to assault; to assail in words.
part of speech: verb intransitive
part of speech: noun
Usage examples for attack:
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Who would take it on himself to attack her?
"A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6)", Leopold von Ranke -
Was it only a few short hours ago, I asked myself, that I was listening to my mother's attack upon Winifred?
"Aylwin", Theodore Watts-Dunton -
Why did they attack the Mohammedans?
"Introductory American History", Henry Eldridge Bourne Elbert Jay Benton -
I have said nothing in the way of attack or blame.
"Democracy An American Novel", Henry Adams