Definition of attack

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Attack (n.) A setting to work upon some task, etc..

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Assail :: Assail (v. t.) To attack with violence, or in a vehement and hostile manner; to assault; to molest; as, to assail a man with blows; to assail a city with artillery..
Strength :: Strength (n.) Power of resisting attacks; impregnability.
Horse-leech :: Horse-leech (n.) A large blood-sucking leech (Haemopsis vorax), of Europe and Northern Africa. It attacks the lips and mouths of horses..
Battery :: Battery (v. t.) Any place where cannon or mortars are mounted, for attack or defense..
Chicken Pox :: Chicken pox () A mild, eruptive disease, generally attacking children only; varicella..
Belfry :: Belfry (n.) A movable tower erected by besiegers for purposes of attack and defense.
Grapple :: Grapple (v. t.) To seize; to lay fast hold of; to attack at close quarters: as, to grapple an antagonist..
Caribe :: Caribe (n.) A south American fresh water fish of the genus Serrasalmo of many species, remarkable for its voracity. When numerous they attack man or beast, often with fatal results..
Besetting :: Besetting (a.) Habitually attacking, harassing, or pressing upon or about; as, a besetting sin..
Weed :: Weed (n.) A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which attacks women in childbed..
War :: War (v. i.) To make war; to invade or attack a state or nation with force of arms; to carry on hostilities; to be in a state by violence.
Attacked :: Attacked (imp. & p. p.) of Attac.
Impregnable :: Impregnable (a.) Not to be stormed, or taken by assault; incapable of being subdued; able to resist attack; unconquerable; as, an impregnable fortress; impregnable virtue..
Violent :: Violent (a.) Acting, characterized, or produced by unjust or improper force; outrageous; unauthorized; as, a violent attack on the right of free speech..
Parallel :: Parallel (n.) One of a series of long trenches constructed before a besieged fortress, by the besieging force, as a cover for troops supporting the attacking batteries. They are roughly parallel to the line of outer defenses of the fortress..
Assaulter :: Assaulter (n.) One who assaults, or violently attacks; an assailant..
Attack :: Attack (v. t.) To assail with unfriendly speech or writing; to begin a controversy with; to attempt to overthrow or bring into disrepute, by criticism or satire; to censure; as, to attack a man, or his opinions, in a pamphlet..
Ammunition :: Ammunition (n.) Military stores, or provisions of all kinds for attack or defense..
Remonstrant :: Remonstrant (n.) one of the Arminians who remonstrated against the attacks of the Calvinists in 1610, but were subsequently condemned by the decisions of the Synod of Dort in 1618. See Arminian..
Wheatworm :: Wheatworm (n.) A small nematode worm (Anguillula tritici) which attacks the grains of wheat in the ear. It is found in wheat affected with smut, each of the diseased grains containing a large number of the minute young of the worm..
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