Word Finder - attacks

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An attempt to cause damage, injury to, or death of opponent or enemy.

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An attempt to detract from the worth or credibility of, a person, position, idea, object, or thing, by physical, verbal, emotional, or other assault.

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They claimed the censorship of the article was an attack on free speech.

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A time in which one attacks; the offence of a battle.

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The army timed their attack to coincide with the local celebrations.

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(by extension) The beginning of active operations on anything.

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Having washed the plates from dinner, I made an attack on the laundry.

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An attempt to exploit a vulnerability in a computer system.

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Collectively, the bowlers of a cricket side.

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Any contact with the ball other than a serve or block which sends the ball across the plane of the net.

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• hit
• spike

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The three attackmen on the field or all the attackmen of a team.

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The sudden onset of a disease or condition.

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I've had an attack of the flu.

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An active episode of a chronic or recurrent disease.

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The onset of a musical note, particularly with respect to the strength (and duration) of that onset.

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(audio) The amount of time it takes 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).

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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.

There will be no more attacks on human schools.

All of the attacks occurred between three fifteen in the morning and four thirty.

There again, it's hard to say whether they die from natural causes or attacks by predators.

It was an understanding as old as the Dark One, who had stopped his demons once before when they launched attacks on humans.

The attacks on the coast occurred simultaneously with nukes that would've been impossible to hide, let alone smuggle into the country.

He hadn't had one of the attacks in a few days.

Fischer found that the enzyme "invertase," which is present in yeast, attacks methyl-d-glucoside but not methyl-l-glucoside.

I can defend you against anything that attacks us.

Princess Mary had two passions and consequently two joys--her nephew, little Nicholas, and religion--and these were the favorite subjects of the prince's attacks and ridicule.

Her arms and legs were only faintly scarred despite the glass shards from the rocket attacks and the damage done by Sasha.

Of course, no one had ever expected the nuke attacks to happen, even someone involved in the insurgent organization blamed for them.

They have sequenced the cacao tree, the mosquito, coral, the Tasmanian devil, the bald eagle, the leafcutter ant, a germ that attacks wheat plants, and the extinct woolly mammoth.

During one of these attacks they carried off my empty portmanteau and my dressing gown.

What was it she had heard about bear attacks?

Trac—the Natural tracker was able to identify patterns in the attacks.

Five minutes after you left, he called off the attacks.

She looked at the bottle anew, thoughts going to the long list of Immortals she could.ve used it on instead of bearing their attacks.

Jackson began to accept his fate and found comfort in the fact that none of his victims remembered his attacks.

Lana crossed to the screen and touched it, bringing up details of the attacks.

The timing on all four attacks was the same to the hundredth of a second.

The attacks were too powerful for the capabilities of our enemies alone.

Government will splinter once the attacks occur.

I found encrypted correspondence from Greene and your orders to Brady to find me, before the nuke attacks.

Emotion filled her as she realized she'd never had a home, even before the attacks.

During the whole session he organized and directed the opposition in their attacks on the king's ministers.

On land their general Myronides beat off two Corinthian attacks on Megara, which had been further secured by long walls drawn between the capital and its port Nisaea, nearly a mile distant.

Exposed to the incessant attacks of the savages, the place was a second time abandoned, February 1543.

Although holding an office of subordinate rank, he was the chief defender of the government in the House of Commons, and during the time that Pitt was in opposition had to bear the brunt of his attacks.

Jarrah timber is nearly impervious to the attacks of the teredo, and there is good evidence to show that, exposed to wear and weather, or placed under the soil, or used as submarine piles, the wood remained intact after nearly fifty years' trial.

After the fall of Rome it suffered attacks and devastations from the successive masters of Italy, until it was finally taken by the Neapolitans in 1299.

During the 9th and 10th centuries the Netherlands suffered cruelly from the attacks of the Northmen, who ravaged the The in- shores and at times penetrated far inland.

The principal features of his reign were a struggle against his brother general, Thomas, who aimed at the throne (822-824); the conquest of Crete by the Saracens in 823; and the beginning of their attacks upon Sicily (827).

The Protector, however, did not live to witness the final triumph of his undertaking, which gave to England, as he had wished," the mastery of those seas,"ensuring the English colonies against Spanish attacks, and being maintained and followed up at the Restoration.

Other attacks upon his authority were met with the same resort to force.

In that licentious university Francis found the greatest difficulty in resisting attacks on his virtue, and once at least had to draw his sword to defend his personal safety against a band of ruffians.

He attacks Hegelianism for its pantheism, its lowering of human personality, and imperfect recognition of the demands of the moral consciousness.

A good example of a fairly typical case is afforded by Heterodera schachtii, which attacks beetroot and causes great loss to the Continental sugar manufacturers.

On the 12th of July 1871, Articles 268, 269 and 270 of the Italian Penal Code were so modified as to make ecclesiastics liable to imprisonment for periods varying from six months to five years, and to fines from 1000 to 3000 lire, for spoken or written attacks against the laws of the state, or for the fomentation of disorder.

These attacks were, however, unavailing to shake Crispis position, and in the general election of May 1895 his government obtained a majority of nearly 200 votes.

Anti-Italian demonstrations occurred periodically also at Vienna, while in Dalmatia and Croatia Italian fishermen and workmen (Italian citizens, not natives) were subject to attacks by gangs of half-savage Croats, which led to frequent diplomatic incidents.

Though a strong Tory and supporter of the hereditary principle, James's attacks on Protestantism soon drove him into opposition.

Meanwhile fresh attacks had been made upon him.

In Alciphron or the Minute Philosopher Berkeley gives the fullest statement of this argument, while adding more commonplace attacks on the pettiness of religious scepticism.

Then he attacks the arguments, one after another.

Indeed, the bulk of the reign of Aurelius was spent in efforts to ward off the attacks of the barbarians.

The other group attacks these peptones and breaks them down into the amino-acids of which we have spoken before.

Its over-supply is, however, a frequent cause of predisposition to the attacks of parasitic Fungie.g.

In such cases the immediate damage done may be slight; but the effects of prolonged action and the summation of numerous attacks at numerous points are often enormotis, certain of these leafdiseases costing millions sterling annually to some planting and agricultural communities.

General attacks of leaf-diseases invariably lead to starvation and necrosis of twigs, and similarly with the ravages of caterpillars and other insects.

Under the head of malformations we place cases of atrophy of parts or general dwarfing, due to starvation, the attacks of Fungi or minute insects, the presence of unsuitable food-materials and so on, as well as cases of transformation of stamens into petals, carpels into leaves, and so forth.