Results for attack

Definitions of attack:

part of speech: verb intransitive

To make an attack.

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

To make an onset.

part of speech: noun

The act of assailing; a battle; a seizure by illness.

Usage examples for attack:

• 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