Definition of attack

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Attack (n.) The beginning of corrosive, decomposing, or destructive action, by a chemical agent..

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Attack :: Attack (n.) The act of attacking, or falling on with force or violence; an onset; an assault; -- opposed to defense..
Attacked :: Attacked (imp. & p. p.) of Attac.
Worry :: Worry (v. t.) To harass by pursuit and barking; to attack repeatedly; also, to tear or mangle with the teeth..
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..
Nap-taking :: Nap-taking (n.) A taking by surprise; an unexpected onset or attack.
Machicolation :: Machicolation (n.) An opening between the corbels which support a projecting parapet, or in the floor of a gallery or the roof of a portal, shooting or dropping missiles upen assailants attacking the base of the walls. Also, the construction of such defenses, in general, when of this character. See Illusts. of Battlement and Castle..
Wolf :: Wolf (a.) Any one of several species of wild and savage carnivores belonging to the genus Canis and closely allied to the common dog. The best-known and most destructive species are the European wolf (Canis lupus), the American gray, or timber, wolf (C. occidentalis), and the prairie wolf, or coyote. Wolves often hunt in packs, and may thus attack large animals and even man..
Circumvallation :: Circumvallation (n.) A line of field works made around a besieged place and the besieging army, to protect the camp of the besiegers against the attack of an enemy from without..
Withstand :: Withstand (prep.) To stand against; to oppose; to resist, either with physical or moral force; as, to withstand an attack of troops; to withstand eloquence or arguments..
Ambush :: Ambush (v. t.) A concealed station, where troops or enemies lie in wait to attack by surprise..
Sortie :: Sortie (n.) The sudden issuing of a body of troops, usually small, from a besieged place to attack or harass the besiegers; a sally..
Chicken Pox :: Chicken pox () A mild, eruptive disease, generally attacking children only; varicella..
Fortify :: Fortify (v. t.) To strengthen and secure by forts or batteries, or by surrounding with a wall or ditch or other military works; to render defensible against an attack by hostile forces..
Paroxysm :: Paroxysm (n.) The fit, attack, or exacerbation, of a disease that occurs at intervals, or has decided remissions or intermissions..
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..
Strike :: Strike (v. i.) To make an attack; to aim a blow.
Battery :: Battery (v. t.) Any place where cannon or mortars are mounted, for attack or defense..
Fit :: Fit (n.) A sudden and violent attack of a disorder; a stroke of disease, as of epilepsy or apoplexy, which produces convulsions or unconsciousness; a convulsion; a paroxysm; hence, a period of exacerbation of a disease; in general, an attack of disease; as, a fit of sickness..
Assailant :: Assailant (n.) One who, or that which, assails, attacks, or assaults; an assailer..
Bate :: Bate (v. t.) To attack; to bait.
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