Attack
To fall upon with force; to assail, as with force and arms; to assault.
To assail with unfriendly speech or writing; to begin a controversy with; to attempt to overthrow or bring into disrepute, by criticism or satire; to censure; as, to attack a man, or his opinions, in a pamphlet.
To set to work upon, as upon a task or problem, or some object of labor or investigation.
To begin to affect; to begin to act upon, injuriously or destructively; to begin to decompose or waste.
To make an onset or attack.
The act of attacking, or falling on with force or violence; an onset; an assault; -- opposed to defense.
An assault upon one's feelings or reputation with unfriendly or bitter words.
A setting to work upon some task, etc.
An access of disease; a fit of sickness.
The beginning of corrosive, decomposing, or destructive action, by a chemical agent.
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Attack Quotations
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
Winston Churchill
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
Winston Churchill
The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.
Winston Churchill
Invincibility lies in the defence; the possibility of victory in the attack.
Sun Tzu
I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.
Margaret Thatcher
Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs, attack Iraqi civilians and try to spark sectarian strife. But ultimately, these terrorists will fail to achieve their goals.
Barack Obama
Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.
Sun Tzu
Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.
Sun Tzu
Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
George S. Patton
Attack Translations
attack in Afrikaans is aanval
attack in Danish is angreb, angribe
attack in Dutch is aangrijpen, aantasten, aanvallen
attack in German is Anfall {m}, angreifen, angriff
attack in Italian is assalire, attacco, assalto
attack in Latin is oppugno, insultus, impetus, tentatio-onis, lacesso
attack in Norwegian is angrep, angripe
attack in Portuguese is ataque
attack in Spanish is acceso, atacar, acometer
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