Definition of attack

"attack" in the noun sense

1. attack, onslaught, onset, onrush

military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons

"the attack began at dawn"

2. attack

an offensive move in a sport or game

"they won the game with a 10-hit attack in the 9th inning"

3. fire, attack, flak, flack, blast

intense adverse criticism

"Clinton directed his fire at the Republican Party"

"the government has come under attack"

"don't give me any flak"

4. approach, attack, plan of attack

ideas or actions intended to deal with a problem or situation

"his approach to every problem is to draw up a list of pros and cons"

"an attack on inflation"

"his plan of attack was misguided"

5. attack, attempt

the act of attacking

"attacks on women increased last year"

"they made an attempt on his life"

6. attack, tone-beginning

a decisive manner of beginning a musical tone or phrase

7. attack

a sudden occurrence of an uncontrollable condition

"an attack of diarrhea"

8. attack

the onset of a corrosive or destructive process (as by a chemical agent

"the film was sensitive to attack by acids"

"open to attack by the elements"

9. attack

strong criticism

"he published an unexpected attack on my work"

"attack" in the verb sense

1. attack, assail

launch an attack or assault on begin hostilities or start warfare with

"Hitler attacked Poland on September 1, 1939 and started World War II"

"Serbian forces assailed Bosnian towns all week"

2. attack, round, assail, lash out, snipe, assault

attack in speech or writing

"The editors of the left-leaning paper attacked the new House Speaker"

3. attack, aggress

take the initiative and go on the offensive

"The Serbs attacked the village at night"

"The visiting team started to attack"

4. assail, assault, set on, attack

attack someone physically or emotionally

"The mugger assaulted the woman"

"Nightmares assailed him regularly"

5. attack

set to work upon turn one's energies vigorously to a task

"I attacked the problem as soon as I got out of bed"

6. attack

begin to injure

"The cancer cells are attacking his liver"

"Rust is attacking the metal"

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Quotations for attack

He who makes an attack in the night, steals a victory. [ Alexander the Great ]

In love, one must not attack a place unless one storms it.

Attack not thoughtlessly a wasp's nest, but if you do, stand fast. [ M. Claudius ]

To excite a fierce dog to capture a lame rabbit is to attack a contemptible enemy. [ Chinese Proverb ]

To attack vices in the abstract without touching persons, may be safe fighting indeed, but it is fighting with shadows. [ Junius ]

To neglect at any time preparation for death is to sleep on our post at a siege; to omit it in old age is to sleep at an attack. [ Johnson ]

As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds. [ Colton ]

To remain virtuous, a man has only to combat his own desires: a woman must resist her own inclinations, and the continual attack of man. [ Latena ]

They who, without any previous knowledge of us, think amiss of us, do us no harm: they attack not us, but the phantom of their own imagination. [ La Bruyere ]

I think we cannot too strongly attack superstition, which is the disturber of society; nor too highly respect genuine religion, which is the support of it. [ Rousseau ]

Every man ought to be in love a few times in his life, and to have a smart attack of the fever. You are better for it when it is over: the better for your misfortune, if you endure it with a manly heart; how much the better for success, if you win it and a good wife into the bargain! [ Thackeray ]

The beauty of work depends upon the way we meet it, whether we arm ourselves each morning to attack it as an enemy that must be vanquished before night comes, or whether we open our eyes with the sunrise to welcome it as an approaching friend who will keep us delightful company all day, and who will make us feel at evening that the day was well worth its fatigues. [ Lucy Larcom ]

attack in Scrabble®

The word attack is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 12

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters attack:

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attack in Words With Friends™

The word attack is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 13

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters attack:

ATTACK
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Words within the letters of attack

2 letter words in attack (3 words)

3 letter words in attack (3 words)

4 letter words in attack (4 words)

6 letter words in attack (1 word)

attack + 1 blank (1 word)

attack + 2 blanks (3 words)

Word Growth involving attack

Shorter words in attack

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ta tack

Longer words containing attack

attacked counterattacked

attacked reattacked

attacked unattacked

attacker attackers counterattackers

attacker counterattacker counterattackers

attacking attackingly

attacking counterattacking

attacking reattacking

attacks counterattacks

attacks groundattacks

attacks reattacks

counterattack counterattacked

counterattack counterattacker counterattackers

counterattack counterattacking

counterattack counterattacks

groundattack groundattacks

reattack reattacked

reattack reattacking

reattack reattacks

unattackable unattackableness