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Verb
/əˈtak/,
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attacked, past participle; attacks, 3rd person singular present; attacking, present participle; attacked, past tense;
  1. Take aggressive action against (a place or enemy forces) with weapons or armed force, typically in a battle or war
    • - in December, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor
    • - Italian forces attacked in October
  2. (of a person or animal) Act against (someone or something) aggressively in an attempt to injure or kill
    • - a doctor was attacked by two youths
  3. (of a disease, chemical substance, or insect) Act harmfully on
    • - HIV is thought to attack certain cells in the brain
  4. Criticize or oppose fiercely and publicly
    • - he attacked the government's defense policy
  5. Begin to deal with (a problem or task) in a determined and vigorous way
    • - a plan of action to attack unemployment
  6. Make an aggressive or forceful attempt to score a goal or point, or gain or exploit an advantage in a game against an opposing team or player
    • - the home team showed some good attacking play
  7. Move into or be in a position to capture (an opponent's piece)


  1. (attack) (military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons); "the attack began at dawn"
  2. launch an attack or assault on; begin hostilities or start warfare with; "Hitler attacked Poland on September 1, 1939 and started World War II"; "Serbian forces assailed Bosnian towns all week"
  3. (attack) an offensive move in a sport or game; "they won the game with a 10-hit attack in the 9th inning"
  4. attack in speech or writing; "The editors of the left-leaning paper attacked the new House Speaker"
  5. (attack) fire: intense adverse criticism; "Clinton directed his fire at the Republican Party"; "the government has come under attack"; "don't give me any flak"
  6. (attack) take the initiative and go on the offensive; "The Serbs attacked the village at night"; "The visiting team started to attack"
  7. (Attack!!) Attack!! is Yngwie Malmsteen's first album with singer Doogie White, released in 2002. Also featured is famed keyboardist Derek Sherinian (Alice Cooper, Dream Theater, Planet X).
  8. (Attack (30 Seconds to Mars song)) "Attack" is a song by 30 Seconds to Mars. The song is released as the band's first single from their second album, A Beautiful Lie.
  9. (Attack (album)) Attack is an album by the Japanese group of entertainers known as AAA. It was released on avex trax on January 1, 2006, in three different editions: CD, CD accompanied by a DVD, and a CD which featured only a selection of the songs from the album. ...
  10. (Attack (chess)) This page explains commonly used terms in chess in alphabetical order. Some of these have their own pages, like fork and pin. ...
  11. (Attack (fencing)) In fencing, an attack is the first offensive movement of a phrase.
  12. (Attack (music)) A synthesizer, or "synth", is an electronic musical instrument that uses filters and tone generators to create waveforms which are then processed to generate sound. ...
  13. (attack) An attempt to cause damage or injury to, or to somehow detract from the worth or credibility of, a person, position, idea, object, or thing, by physical, verbal, emotional, or other assault; A time in which one attacks. ...
  14. (Attack) the initial offensive action made by extending the sword arm and continuously threatening the valid target of the opponent.
  15. (attack) Directed and focused attempt to evaluate the quality, especially reliability, of a test object by attempting to force specific failures to occur.
  16. (Attack) A sudden attempt to get away from another rider.
  17. (ATTACK (see also LIGHT, THIN below)) The initial impact of a wine. If not strong or flavourful, the wine is considered "feeble". "Feeble" wines are sometimes encountered among those vinified in a year where late rain just before harvest diluted desirable grape content.
  18. (Attack) Movement or series of movements by which a fencer tries to score a point. In foil and saber, the fencer who attacks first acquires the “right-of-way.” In order to execute an attack properly (i.e. ...
  19. (Attack) The beginning of a sound; the initial transient of a musical note.
  20. (attack) 1) When your Active Pokémon fights your opponent’s Pokémon. 2) The text written on each Pokémon card that shows what it does when it attacks (a Pokémon can have several attacks on it).
  21. (Attack) A technical term for the first impression the wine makes as it reaches your palate, distinguished (in time sequence) from 'middle' or 'mid-palate' and 'finish' or 'aftertaste.'
  22. (Attack) An attempt to bypass security controls on a computer. The attack may alter, release, or deny data. Whether an attack will succeed depends on the vulnerability of the computer system and the effectiveness of existing countermeasures.
  23. (attack) 1) The buildup of sound when an instrument is bowed, blown, struck, or plucked. 2) The ability of a system to reproduce the attack transients in musical sound. Poor attack makes a system sound slow.
  24. (Attack) In wine tasting, the first impression of a wine on the mouth. Usually perceived as a first "hit" on the tip of the tongue and at the front of mouth.
  25. (ATTACK) when a single musical note is played on an instrument, it forms a tonal "envelope" with a beginning and an end; the attack is the first portion of a note's envelope, the point at which it starts at relative silence and reaches its maximum volume.