attack

attack has 25 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 6.

Definitions

• v. t.. To fall upon with force; to assail, as with force and arms; to assault.
• 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.
• v. t.. To set to work upon, as upon a task or problem, or some object of labor or investigation.
• v. t.. To begin to affect; to begin to act upon, injuriously or destructively; to begin to decompose or waste.
• v. i.. To make an onset or attack.
• n.. The act of attacking, or falling on with force or violence; an onset; an assault; -- opposed to defense.
• n.. An assault upon one's feelings or reputation with unfriendly or bitter words.
• n.. A setting to work upon some task, etc.
• n.. An access of disease; a fit of sickness.
• n.. The beginning of corrosive, decomposing, or destructive action, by a chemical agent.
• n.. a decisive manner of beginning a musical tone or phrase
• n.. an offensive move in a sport or game; "they won the game with a 10-hit attack in the 9th inning"