Meaning of attack | Babel Free

Definitions

1. attack (an attempt to damage an opponent or enemy)
2. Abusive procedure of any authority.
3. An attempt to cause damage, injury to, or death of an opponent or enemy.
4. To set upon with violent force.
5. attack, offensive
6. I agree, prudent, moderate.
7. Any of several specific maneuvers, skills, or special abilities that a character can use to inflict damage against opponents.
8. To criticize strongly or in a hostile manner.
9. attack (the sudden onset of a disease or condition)
10. Fact with a lot tempt, without dipping noise.
11. An attempt to detract from the worth or credibility of, a person, position, idea, object, or thing, by physical, verbal, emotional, or other assault.
12. To start work on with purpose and vigor: attack a problem.
13. attack (an attempt to detract from the worth or credibility of someone)
14. A time in which one attacks; the offence of a battle.
15. The beginning of active operations on anything.
    broadly, informal
16. To act on in a detrimental way; cause harm to: a disease that attacks the central nervous system; lawn furniture attacked by corrosion.
17. onset of a syllable
18. An attempt to exploit a vulnerability in a computer system.
19. Sports a. To play (the ball) aggressively, especially by moving toward it rather than by waiting for it to arrive.
    Sports
20. Collectively, the bowlers of a cricket side.
21. To make an attack; launch an assault: The enemy attacked during the night.
22. Any contact with the ball other than a serve or block which sends the ball across the plane of the net.
23. Sports a. To make a play on offense; attempt to score.
    Sports
24. The three attackmen on the field or all the attackmen of a team.
25. The act or an instance of attacking; an assault.
26. The sudden onset of a disease or condition.
27. An expression of strong criticism; hostile comment: vicious attacks in all the newspapers.
28. Sports a. Offensive play, especially in lacrosse.
    Sports
29. An active episode of a chronic or recurrent disease.
30. The onset of a musical note, particularly with respect to the strength (and duration) of that onset.
31. The amount of time taken for the volume of an audio signal to go from zero to maximum level (e.g. an audio waveform representing a snare drum hit would feature a very fast attack, whereas that of a wave washing to shore would feature a slow attack).
32. The initial sensory impact of a wine.
33. Short for heart attack.
    India, South, abbreviation, alt-of

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Examples

“From 1906 to 1960, there were forty-six recorded shark attacks, half of which were fatal.”

“One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools[…]as children, teachers or school buildings become the targets of attacks. Parents fear sending their children to school. Girls are particularly vulnerable to sexual violence.”

“Combat in Mimesis Online is nice and simple. You click on your target […] and then keep right-clicking your chosen attack from the drop down menu. Every time you right click on the attack, your character will swing, shoot, etc.”

“Kleavor has several attacks that it's worth roughly memorising: a charge attack, where it runs at you quickly; a jump attack, that causes a pillar of rock to spike out from under the ground; and a spin attack that does damage in a circle around it.”

““I came down like a wolf on the fold, didn’t I ? Why didn’t I telephone ? Strategy, my dear boy, strategy. This is a surprise attack, and I’d no wish that the garrison, forewarned, should escape. …””

“They claimed the censorship of the article was an attack on free speech.”

“The army timed their attack to coincide with the local celebrations.”

“Having washed the plates from dinner, I made an attack on the laundry.”

“birthday attack; denial-of-service attack”

“I've had an attack of the flu.”

“Eric Reed was a curious choice as pianist, since his busy Petersonian attack is the antithesis of Lewis's, but he acquitted himself with panache, […]”

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