Word Finder - attacked

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To apply violent force to someone or something.

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This species of snake will only attack humans if it feels threatened.

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To aggressively challenge a person, idea, etc., with words (particularly in newspaper headlines, because it typesets into less space than "criticize" or similar).

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She published an article attacking the recent pay cuts.

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To begin to affect; to act upon injuriously or destructively; to begin to decompose or waste.

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To deal with something in a direct way; to set to work upon.

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I attacked the meal with a hearty appetite.

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To aim balls at the batsman’s wicket.

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To set a field, or bowl in a manner designed to get wickets.

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To bat aggressively, so as to score runs quickly.

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To move forward in an active attempt to score a point, as opposed to trying not to concede.

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To accelerate quickly in an attempt to get ahead of the other riders.

No one attacked her or told her to stop.

He attacked Howie's fiancée.

Croesus attacked, was defeated, and was killed.

What if they attacked tonight?

A woman was attacked in the ladies room.

Taran met her blows and then attacked without his brute force, instead assessing her ability to react.

They wouldn't have attacked me.

When she neither rejected nor attacked him, he lay down beside her and wrapped an arm around her, holding her tightly against him.

This was where he had trailed the wild dogs that had attacked her and the dairy herd so long ago.

The lead dog was the Chow she had recognized the night the dogs attacked Brutus.

They each ordered a salad and steak and attacked them with surprising gusto.

They must have been attacked some time during the night.

He attacked them to get to the Ancient Sasha.

For the first time since being attacked, my mind began to access what happened and try to formulate a coherent response.

He hadn't been attacked by anything remotely human or animal.

Rhyn didn't want to leave it be, not when his own brother had attacked his woman.

She recognized the crazed look from when he.d attacked her in Hell and inched closer to Ully.

I.ve got Toby to think about, and raising him where he.s attacked by demons and subjected to the stupidity of the Immortal world—it.s not happening.

Most had attacked the castle while Darkyn.s personal guard went after Sasha.

Demons attacked us after Sasha did something with our father.s body.

Since your castle was attacked, we.ve had an Ancient wash up on our shores, Death.s assassin sitting in our hall, and now this.

Alex attacked his food as if it were to blame for the havoc he had created at the table.

But who was the second?  Rhyn killed Jade when he attacked me.  He was the traitor operating beneath my nose.

Xander deflected and attacked.

The beautiful Magician sparked with magic that rippled through her body and shot out through her knives as she deflected and attacked the guardsmen.

He moved closer to her in case the unseen threat attacked, hands on the hilts of his daggers.

Fires ignited near the south gate as his men attacked groups of Memon's advisors and the warriors that had been invited into the hold for the feast.

Memon's allies attacked from the south.

Attacked in detail, they vanish one after another into as many teasing spectra of uncertainty.

In the quarrel between Jackson and John C. Calhoun, Green supported the latter, and through the columns of the Telegraph violently attacked the administration.

Some very curious details are observable in these cases of malformation, For instance, the Aecidium eta/mum first referred to causes the new shoots to differ in direction, duration and arrangement, and even shape of foliage leaves from the normal; and the shoots of Euphorbia infected with the aecidia of Uromyces Pisi depart so much from the normal in appearance that the attacked plants have been taken for a different species.

For offering these resolutions Giddings was attacked with rancour, and was formally censured by the House.

Chaka next attacked the tribes on his southern border, and by 1820 had made himself master of Natal, which he swept almost clear of inhabitants.

When rock filling is available, as when the ore contains much barren material to be left behind in mining, the ore body is divided into blocks of convenient height as above, and these blocks are divided into floors, the bottom floor of each block however being attacked.

Liebknecht was shot on his way to the Moabit prison, while Rosa Luxemburg was brutally attacked on leaving the hotel and was finally shot dead as she was being conveyed, insensible from her injuries, in a motor-car under a military escort.

He attacked the Peguans at first with small detachments; but when his forces increased, he suddenly advanced, and took possession of the capital in the autumn of 1753.

Euchaiti was attacked by the Huns A.D.

Gold is also attacked when strong sulphuric acid is submitted to electrolysis with a gold positive pole.

The auric chloride is, however, decomposed at the elevated temperature into finely divided metallic gold, which is then readily attacked by the chlorine gas.

Before dawn the English advanced troops crossed the ravine, attacked Doon, and pinned Leslie's left; under cover of this the whole army began its manoeuvre.

Meanwhile another column was to have attacked the French from the front, but Kutuzov accompanied that column.

And try as Kutuzov might to restrain the troops, our men attacked, trying to bar the road.

In such actions, instead of two crowds opposing each other, the men disperse, attack singly, run away when attacked by stronger forces, but again attack when opportunity offers.

There were bears and mountain lions, but in all the years she had lived here, she had never known of anyone being attacked.

How did Martha react when you told her I'd been attacked?

I told Julie everything that happened, my being attacked at Howie's house and that the assailant was shot dead.

The massive vamp hadn't attacked or turned his back at the first sight of him, a sign Jule took as positive.

Since they still didn't know why he attacked her or Alex, they considered it possible that he might return.

This is the second time in a year some thug's attacked a tourist.

I swear I saw PMF fighting alongside us earlier against the guys who attacked us.