attack (original) (raw)
attack verb (CRITICIZE)
The report attacks the idea of exams for seven and eight-year-olds.
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
- criticizeHe criticized the government's handling of the crisis.
- attackShe wrote an article attacking the judge and the way the trial had been conducted.
- condemnShe was condemned for her comments about the candidate.
- denounceThe government's economic policy has been denounced on all sides.
- come under fireThe government programme has come under fire for mismanaging funds.
attack verb (DAMAGE)
attack verb (SPORT)
attack verb (DEAL WITH)
attack noun (CRITICISM)
attack noun (ILLNESS)
figurative an attack of the giggles
attack noun (SPORT)
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
(Definition of attack from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
attack | American Dictionary
attack verb (HURT)
attack verb (CRITICIZE)
Critics have attacked her ideas as antidemocratic.
In TV ads, he attacked his opponent’s record.
attacker
attack noun [C/U] (HURT)
attack noun [C/U] (CRITICISM)
[ U ] The more he speaks out, the more he comes under attack.
Idiom
(Definition of attack from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of attack
attack
A multinational attacked the nation's dignity by colonising a national image for its global enterprise.
We only have inadequate knowledge of the planned attacks, but we are sure of the detainee's involvement and of the attack's seriousness and imminence.
Lizards attacked far fewer sawfly larvae than pierid caterpillars.
We also hear of demonstrations in which pilgrims were booed or attacked by anticlerical crowds.#!
The predators deterred/household cattle cross effects variable suggests that households with larger cattle herds are willing to pay more to deter predators from attacking.
Over the next 14 months, the child remained cyanosed, becoming increasingly so with time, but with no history of overt hypercyanotic attacks.
They were taught how to ward off and resist unexpected attacks and disable their attacker.
Last year pro had two heart attacks within two to three months.
Secondly, he was a fellow bishop and these attacks besmirched the honour of the office which he shared with other prelates.
Night terrors (different from nightmares) and somnambulism attacks also occur during slow wave sleep, all these data showing non-visual mental activity during sleep.
How does one go from neurons firing to the dream experience of being attacked, and what are the mechanisms to achieve this transformation?
Unfortunately, this situation becomes even more complicated when a given problem is attacked by perturbation methods.
The objective is to clearly identify the potential role and also the limits of agricultural technology in attacking poverty.
Losses caused by predators (mainly hyenas attacking straying animals) were responsible for 6-9 % of calf losses.
A number of problems are identified, such as transport, ' imperialist attacks ' and the dearth of ammunition and supplies.
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Collocations with attack
These are words often used in combination with attack.
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Treatment of tension headache involves reassurance, simple analgesia as abortive treatment for the acute attack and treatment of any psychopathology that may be present.
When landowners are faced with such an aggressive attack, naturally, they respond by being aggressive in their own right.
Such air attack is said to be pressed home at levels determined by military considerations only.
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