Synonym: assault, bombardment, charge, drive, offense, onslaught, push, raid, siege. Antonym: defend, defense, guard, protect, protection, safeguard. Similar words: attach, attach to, stack, tackle, at that time, gotta, cottage, pittance. Meaning: [ə'tæk] n. 1. (military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons) 2. a sudden occurrence of an uncontrollable condition 3. intense adverse criticism 4. the act of attacking 5. an offensive move in a sport or game 6. the onset of a corrosive or destructive process (as by a chemical agent) 7. ideas or actions intended to deal with a problem or situation 8. a decisive manner of beginning a musical tone or phrase 9. strong criticism. v. 1. launch an attack or assault on; begin hostilities or start warfare with 2. attack in speech or writing 3. take the initiative and go on the offensive 4. attack someone physically or emotionally 5. set to work upon; turn one's energies vigorously to a task 6. begin to injure.
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151. The company has come under fierce attack for its decision to close the factory.
152. More than two million refugees have fled the area, fearing attack by loyalist forces.
153. A man has been charged in connection with the attack.
154. The gunman in Wednesday's attack has been identified as Lee Giggs, an unemployed truck driver.
155. The government has come under attack from all sides for cutting education spending.
156. The police were shocked by the ferocity of the attack.
157. The President took the unusual step of altering his prepared speech in order to condemn the terrorist attack.
158. Hardening of the coronary arteries can lead to a heart attack.
159. Police have so far failed to trace any witnesses to the attack.
160. Frears was rushed to hospital with a suspected heart attack.
161. The magazine recently published a vicious personal attack on the novelist.
162. The attack added a new urgency to the peace talks.
163. This was a nasty attack and the woman is still very shocked.
164. I attack politicians with the one weapon they don't have[sentencedict.com], a sense of humor.
165. Patient education is important to minimize the risk of a second heart attack.
166. Any attempt to attack the budget problem is going to have to in some way deal with those issues.
167. A previously unknown extremist group has said it carried out Friday's bomb attack.
168. The attack is one of a series of savage sexual assaults on women in the university area.
169. As a diabetic she was accustomed to the occasional hypoglycaemic attack.
170. Ann then sailed in with a furious attack on the chairman.
171. As Napoleon once said,(sentencedict.com/attack.html) attack is the best method of defence.
172. No organization has yet claimed responsibility for the bomb attack.
173. It is a deliberate, nasty and vicious attack on a young man's character.
174. There was a vicious and vitriolic attack on him in one of the Sunday newspapers two weeks ago.
175. This action was undoubtedly in retaliation for last week's bomb attack.
176. The newspapers launched a vicious attack on him, forcing him to resign.
177. International opprobrium has been heaped on the country following its attack on its neighbours.
178. Here is the plan of attack and this is where you come in.
179. The explosion had all the hallmarks of a terrorist attack.
180. A sudden attack of typhoid cut him off in the prime of his life.