attack
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Is attack a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of attack?
Definition
noun (English)
1. An attempt to cause damage, injury to, or death of an opponent or enemy.Examples: "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."
2. (informal, by extension) The beginning of active operations on anything.Examples: "Having washed the plates from dinner, I made an attack on the laundry."broadlyinformal
3. (computing) An attempt to exploit a vulnerability in a computer system.Examples: "birthday attack; denial-of-service attack"
4. (cricket) Collectively, the bowlers of a cricket side.
5. (volleyball) Any contact with the ball other than a serve or block which sends the ball across the plane of the net.Synonyms: hit, spike
6. (lacrosse) The three attackmen on the field or all the attackmen of a team.
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To apply violent force to someone or something.Examples: "This species of snake will only attack humans if it feels threatened."; "Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan."Synonyms: savagetransitive
2. (transitive) To aggressively challenge a person, idea, etc., with words (particularly in newspaper headlines, because it typesets into less space than "criticize" or similar).Examples: "She published an article attacking the recent pay cuts."; "It was puzzling to read a column that claimed to be attacking me, yet espoused the main ideas in my article."; "In its God-like prime, The Simpsons attacked well-worn satirical fodder from unexpected angles, finding fresh laughs in the hoariest of subjects."transitive
3. (transitive) To begin to affect; to act upon injuriously or destructively; to begin to decompose or waste.Examples: "On the fourth of March he was attacked by fever."; "Hydrofluoric acid […] attacks the glass."transitive
4. (transitive) To deal with something in a direct way; to set to work upon.Examples: "We’ll have dinner before we attack the biology homework."; "I attacked the meal with a hearty appetite."; "He filled a basin with water, and, with an old brush and piece of sandsoap, attacked the stove."transitive
5. (transitive, cricket) To aim balls at the batsman’s wicket.transitive
6. (intransitive, cricket) To set a field, or bowl in a manner designed to get wickets.intransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary