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What does the word attack mean?

Part of speech: verb transitive, verb intransitive

To begin battle or conflict with; assail; assault; make an onset; criticize; censure.

Part of speech: verb transitive, verb intransitive

To start vigorously on ( a task).

Part of speech: verb transitive, verb intransitive

To act upon vigorously, as acid upon metal.

Part of speech: noun

The act of attacking; an onset; an attacking force; a seizure, as by disease.

Usage examples for attack

It was just at dawn when the German attack began. – The Red Cross Girls with the Russian Army by Margaret Vandercook
It was some time before he returned to the attack. – The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith by George Meredith
But they attack men sometimes, don't they? – Middy and Ensign by G. Manville Fenn

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