EGAVE

attack

About 54.71 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun An attempt to cause damage, injury to, or death of an opponent or enemy. Any of several specific maneuvers, skills, or special abilities that a character can use to inflict damage against opponents.
  2. noun Any of several specific maneuvers, skills, or special abilities that a character can use to inflict damage against opponents.
  3. noun An attempt to detract from the worth or credibility of, a person, position, idea, object, or thing, by physical, verbal, emotional, or other assault.
    They claimed the censorship of the article was an attack on free speech.
  4. noun A time in which one attacks; the offence of a battle.
    The army timed their attack to coincide with the local celebrations.
  5. noun The beginning of active operations on anything.
    Having washed the plates from dinner, I made an attack on the laundry.
  6. noun An attempt to exploit a vulnerability in a computer system.
    birthday attack; denial-of-service attack
  7. noun Collectively, the bowlers of a cricket side.
  8. noun Any contact with the ball other than a serve or block which sends the ball across the plane of the net.

Similar words

onset set on assail assault onslaught lash out onrush aggress attempt offensive

Often followed by

on the of upon and by was in from

Word family

attacked attacker attackers attacking attacks go on the attack goes on the attack going on the attack went on the attack

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