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- Attack - v. t. - To fall upon with force; to assail, as with force and arms; to assault.
- Attack - v. t. - 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.
- Attack - v. t. - To set to work upon, as upon a task or problem, or some object of labor or investigation.
- Attack - v. t. - To begin to affect; to begin to act upon, injuriously or destructively; to begin to decompose or waste.
- Attack - v. i. - To make an onset or attack.
- Attack - n. - The act of attacking, or falling on with force or violence; an onset; an assault; -- opposed to defense.
- Attack - n. - An assault upon one's feelings or reputation with unfriendly or bitter words.
- Attack - n. - A setting to work upon some task, etc.
- Attack - n. - An access of disease; a fit of sickness.
- Attack - n. - The beginning of corrosive, decomposing, or destructive action, by a chemical agent.
- Attackable - a. - Capable of being attacked.
- Attacked - imp. & p. p. - of Attack
- Attacker - n. - One who attacks.
- Attacking - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Attack
- Arm - v. i. - To provide one's self with arms, weapons, or means of attack or resistance; to take arms.
- Assault - n. - A violent onset or attack with moral weapons, as words, arguments, appeals, and the like; as, to make an assault on the prerogatives of a prince, or on the constitution of a government.
- Raid - n. - An attack or invasion for the purpose of making arrests, seizing property, or plundering; as, a raid of the police upon a gambling house; a raid of contractors on the public treasury.
- Qualm - n. - A sudden attack of illness, faintness, or pain; an agony.
- Hawk - v. i. - To make an attack while on the wing; to soar and strike like a hawk; -- generally with at; as, to hawk at flies.
- Defensive - a. - Carried on by resisting attack or aggression; -- opposed to offensive; as, defensive war.
- Rencounter - v. t. - To attack hand to hand.
- Impugn - v. t. - To attack by words or arguments; to contradict; to assail; to call in question; to make insinuations against; to gainsay; to oppose.
- Inveigh - v. i. - To declaim or rail (against some person or thing); to utter censorious and bitter language; to attack with harsh criticism or reproach, either spoken or written; to use invectives; -- with against; as, to inveigh against character, conduct, manners, customs, morals, a law, an abuse.
- Thysanoptera - n. pl. - A division of insects, considered by some writers a distinct order, but regarded by others as belonging to the Hemiptera. They are all of small size, and have narrow, broadly fringed wings with rudimentary nervures. Most of the species feed upon the juices of plants, and some, as those which attack grain, are very injurious to crops. Called also Physopoda. See Thrips.
- Assault - n. - To attack with moral means, or with a view of producing moral effects; to attack by words, arguments, or unfriendly measures; to assail; as, to assault a reputation or an administration.
- Circumvallation - n. - A line of field works made around a besieged place and the besieging army, to protect the camp of the besiegers against the attack of an enemy from without.
- Ambuscade - v. t. - To lie in wait for, or to attack from a covert or lurking place; to waylay.
- Betongue - v. t. - To attack with the tongue; to abuse; to insult.
- Assault - n. - A violent onset or attack with physical means, as blows, weapons, etc.; an onslaught; the rush or charge of an attacking force; onset; as, to make assault upon a man, a house, or a town.
- Earthwork - n. - Any construction, whether a temporary breastwork or permanent fortification, for attack or defense, the material of which is chiefly earth.
- Bombardment - n. - An attack upon a fortress or fortified town, with shells, hot shot, rockets, etc.; the act of throwing bombs and shot into a town or fortified place.
- Reduvid - n. - Any hemipterous insect of the genus Redivius, or family Reduvidae. They live by sucking the blood of other insects, and some species also attack man.
- Mob - v. t. - To crowd about, as a mob, and attack or annoy; as, to mob a house or a person.
- Thrust - v. i. - To make a push; to attack with a pointed weapon; as, a fencer thrusts at his antagonist.
- Gout - n. - A constitutional disease, occurring by paroxysms. It consists in an inflammation of the fibrous and ligamentous parts of the joints, and almost always attacks first the great toe, next the smaller joints, after which it may attack the greater articulations. It is attended with various sympathetic phenomena, particularly in the digestive organs. It may also attack internal organs, as the stomach, the intestines, etc.
- Fortify - v. t. - To strengthen and secure by forts or batteries, or by surrounding with a wall or ditch or other military works; to render defensible against an attack by hostile forces.
- Cannonade - v. t. - To attack with heavy artillery; to batter with cannon shot.
- Singly - adv. - Without partners, companions, or associates; single-handed; as, to attack another singly.
- Violent - a. - Acting, characterized, or produced by unjust or improper force; outrageous; unauthorized; as, a violent attack on the right of free speech.
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- H5706 עַד - 5706 עַד - עַד - - ʻad - ad - the same as עַד in the sense of the aim of an attack; booty; prey. - Noun Masculine - heb
- H5909 עַכְבָּר - 5909 עַכְבָּר - עַכְבָּר - - ʻakbâr - ak-bawr' - probably from the same as עַכָּבִישׁ in the secondary sense of attacking; a mouse (as nibbling); mouse. - Noun Masculine - heb
- H5849 עָטַר - 5849 עָטַר - עָטַר - - ʻâṭar - aw-tar' - a primitive root; to encircle (for attack or protection); especially to crown (literally or figuratively); compass, crown. - Verb - heb
- G497 ἀντιστρατεύομαι - 497 ἀντιστρατεύομαι - ἈΝΤΙΣΤΡΑΤΕΎΟΜΑΙ - - antistrateúomai - an-tee-strat-yoo'-om-ahee - from ἀντί and στρατεύομαι; (figuratively) to attack, i.e. (by implication) destroy:--war against. - Verb - greek
- G1881 ἐπανίσταμαι - 1881 ἐπανίσταμαι - ἘΠΑΝΊΣΤΑΜΑΙ - - epanístamai - ep-an-is'-tam-ahee - middle voice from ἐπί and ἀνίστημι; to stand up on, i.e. (figuratively) to attack:--rise up against. - Verb - greek
- G1904 ἐπέρχομαι - 1904 ἐπέρχομαι - ἘΠΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ - - epérchomai - ep-er'-khom-ahee - from ἐπί and ἔρχομαι; to supervene, i.e. arrive, occur, impend, attack, (figuratively) influence:--come (in, upon). - Verb - greek
- H1464 גּוּד - 1464 גּוּד - גּוּד - - gûwd - goode - a primitive root (akin to גָּדַד); to crowd upon, i.e. attack; invade, overcome. - Verb - heb
- G3731 ὅρμημα - 3731 ὅρμημα - ὍΡΜΗΜΑ - - hórmēma - hor'-may-mah - from ὁρμή; an attack, i.e. (abstractly) precipitancy:--violence. - Noun Neuter - greek
- H3611 כֶּלֶב - 3611 כֶּלֶב - כֶּלֶב - - keleb - keh'-leb - from an unused root means. to yelp, or else to attack; a dog; hence (by euphemism) a male prostitute; dog. - Noun Masculine - heb
- H4645 מִפְגָּע - 4645 מִפְגָּע - מִפְגָּע - - miphgâʻ - mif-gaw' - from פָּגַע; an object of attack; mark. - Noun Masculine - heb
- H5066 נָגַשׁ - 5066 נָגַשׁ - נָגַשׁ - - nâgash - naw-gash' - a primitive root; to be or come (causatively, bring) near (for any purpose); euphemistically, to lie with a woman; as an enemy, to attack; religious to worship; causatively, to present; figuratively, to adduce an argument; by reversal, to stand back; (make to) approach (nigh), bring (forth, hither, near), (cause to) come (hither, near, nigh), give place, go hard (up), (be, draw, go) near (nigh), offer, overtake, present, put, stand. - Verb - heb
- H5362 נָקַף - 5362 נָקַף - נָקַף - - nâqaph - naw-kaf' - a primitive root; to strike with more or less violence (beat, fell, corrode); by implication (of attack) to knock together, i.e. surround or circulate; compass (about, -ing), cut down, destroy, go round (about), inclose, round. - Verb - heb
- H7853 שָׂטַן - 7853 שָׂטַן - שָׂטַן - - sâṭan - saw-tan' - a primitive root; to attack, (figuratively) accuse; (be an) adversary, resist. - Verb - heb
- H7973 שֶׁלַח - 7973 שֶׁלַח - שֶׁלַח - - shelach - sheh'-lakh - from שָׁלַח; a missile of attack, i.e. spear; also (figuratively) a shoot of growth; i.e. branch; dart, plant, [idiom] put off, sword, weapon. - Noun Masculine - heb
- G4820 συμβάλλω - 4820 συμβάλλω - ΣΥΜΒΆΛΛΩ - - symbállō - soom-bal'-lo - from σύν and βάλλω; to combine, i.e. (in speaking) to converse, consult, dispute, (mentally) to consider, (by implication) to aid, (personally) to join, attack:--confer, encounter, help, make, meet with, ponder. - Verb - greek