Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word ATTACK

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Definitions of ATTACK

1. An attempt to detract from the worth or credibility of, a person, position, idea, object, or thing, by physical, verbal, emotional, or other assault.
2. A time in which one attacks; the offence of a battle.
3. An active episode of a chronic or recurrent disease.
4. Designed or kept for the purpose of confrontation.
5. (informal, by extension) The beginning of active operations on anything.
6. (computing) An attempt to exploit a vulnerability in a computer system.
7. (cricket) Collectively, the bowlers of a cricket side.
8. (volleyball) Any contact with the ball other than a serve or block which sends the ball across the plane of the net.
9. (lacrosse) The three attackmen on the field or all the attackmen of a team.
10. (medicine) The sudden onset of a disease or condition.
11. (music) The onset of a musical note, particularly with respect to the strength (and duration) of that onset.
12. (transitive) To apply violent force to someone or something.
13. (transitive) To aggressively challenge a person, idea, etc., with words (particularly in newspaper headlines, because it typesets into less space than "criticize" or similar).
14. (transitive) To begin to affect; to act upon injuriously or destructively; to begin to decompose or waste.
15. (transitive) To deal with something in a direct way; to set to work upon.
16. (transitive, cricket) To aim balls at the batsman’s wicket.
17. (intransitive, cricket) To set a field, or bowl in a manner designed to get wickets.
18. (intransitive, cricket) To bat aggressively, so as to score runs quickly.
19. (soccer) To move forward in an active attempt to score a point, as opposed to trying not to concede.
20. (cycling) To accelerate quickly in an attempt to get ahead of the other riders.
21. An attempt to cause damage, injury to, or death of an opponent or enemy.
22. (audio) 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).
23. (oenology) The initial sensory impact of a wine.
24. (physical chemistry) (Of a chemical species) To approach a chemical species or bond in order to form a bond with it.

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Examples of Using ATTACK in a Sentence

• Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM), or acute demyelinating encephalomyelitis, is a rare autoimmune disease marked by a sudden, widespread attack of inflammation in the brain and spinal cord.
• 1478 – The Pazzi family attack on Lorenzo de' Medici in order to displace the ruling Medici family kills his brother Giuliano during High Mass in Florence Cathedral.
• If arachnophobes see a spider, they may not enter the general vicinity until they have overcome the panic attack that is often associated with their phobia.
• The most significant event of his reign was the attack of the Fourth Crusade on Constantinople in 1203, on behalf of Alexios IV Angelos.
• Vehicle armour is used on warships, armoured fighting vehicles, and some combat aircraft, mostly ground attack aircraft.
• The group is considered violent and is responsible for the Philippines' worst terrorist attack, the bombing of MV Superferry 14 in 2004, which killed 116 people.
• Assassination is the willful killing, by a sudden, secret, or planned attack, of a personespecially if prominent or important.
• Beowulf, a hero of the Geats, comes to the aid of Hrothgar, the king of the Danes, whose mead hall Heorot has been under attack by the monster Grendel for twelve years.
• The line of attack aims to cramp the batsman, making him play the ball with the bat close to the body.
• Blitzkrieg is a word used to describe a combined arms surprise attack using a rapid, overwhelming force concentration that may consist of armored and motorized or mechanized infantry formations; together with artillery, air assault, and close air support; with intent to break through the opponent's lines of defense, dislocate the defenders, unbalance the enemies by making it difficult to respond to the continuously changing front, and defeat them in a decisive : a battle of annihilation.
• The name comes from the animal's purported vampirism—the chupacabra is said to attack and drink the blood of livestock, including goats.
• He was Louis XVI's last minister of war (July 1792), and organised the defence of the Tuileries Palace during the 10 August attack.
• Roosevelt delivered his speech 11 months before the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, which caused the United States to declare war on Japan on December 8, 1941.
• The Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk is a retired American single-seat, subsonic twin-engine stealth attack aircraft developed by Lockheed's secretive Skunk Works division and operated by the United States Air Force (USAF).
• They are responsible for the territorial security of Guinea's border and the defence of the country against external attack and aggression.
• "High Anxiety", an episode from Rescue Heroes (originally named Terror In The Tower, but retitled after the September 11 attack, then got banned from Teletoon shortly after).
• The Hawker Siddeley Harrier is a British jet-powered attack aircraft designed and produced by the British aerospace company Hawker Siddeley.
• It was known that early versions of BitchX were vulnerable to a denial-of-service attack in that they could be caused to crash by passing specially-crafted strings as arguments to certain IRC commands.
• Iraq's primary rationale for the attack against Iran cited the need to prevent Ruhollah Khomeini—who had spearheaded the Iranian Revolution in 1979—from exporting the new Iranian ideology to Iraq.
• 533 – A Byzantine expeditionary fleet under Belisarios sails from Constantinople to attack the Vandals in Africa, via Greece and Sicily.

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