Meaning

14 senses
  1. An attempt to cause damage, injury to, or death of an opponent or enemy.

    Attacke, Angriff

    нападе́ниеnapadénije, ата́каatáka

    на́падnápad

  2. An attempt to cause damage, injury to, or death of an opponent or enemy.

    Any of several specific maneuvers, skills, or special abilities that a character can use to inflict damage against opponents.

  3. An attempt to detract from the worth or credibility of, a person, position, idea, object, or thing, by physical, verbal, emotional, or other assault.

    They claimed the censorship of the article was an attack on free speech.

  4. A time in which one attacks; the offence of a battle.

    The army timed their attack to coincide with the local celebrations.

    Angriff, Attacke

    ата́каatáka, нападе́ниеnapadénije, наступле́ниеnastuplénije

    ата́каatáka, на́падnápad

  5. (broadly, informal)The beginning of active operations on anything.

    Having washed the plates from dinner, I made an attack on the laundry.

  6. An attempt to exploit a vulnerability in a computer system.

    birthday attack; denial-of-service attack

  7. Collectively, the bowlers of a cricket side.

  8. Any contact with the ball other than a serve or block which sends the ball across the plane of the net.

    ата́каatáka, уда́рudár

  9. The three attackmen on the field or all the attackmen of a team.

  10. The sudden onset of a disease or condition.

    I've had an attack of the flu.

    Anfall

    при́ступprístup, припа́докpripádok

    a sudden occurrence of an uncontrollable condition

  11. An active episode of a chronic or recurrent disease.

    Anfall

  12. The onset of a musical note, particularly with respect to the strength (and duration) of that onset.

Examples

1694 sentences
  1. He died of a heart attack.

    Він помер від серцевого нападу.

    ruОн умер от сердечного приступа.

    deEr starb an einem Herzanfall.

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  2. You're the only one to survive the attack.

    Тільки ви пережили цю атаку.

    ruТы единственный, кто выжил после нападения.

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  3. Tom was attacked by a pack of wild dogs.

    На Тома напала зграя диких собак.

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  4. I almost had a heart attack.

    Мене трохи удар не вхопив.

    ruУ меня чуть сердечный приступ не случился.

    deIch hätte fast einen Herzinfarkt erlitten.

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  5. Attack is the best form of defense.

    Найкращий захист - напад.

    ruНаступление - лучшая защита.

    deAngriff ist die beste Verteidigung.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
attempt to cause damage, injury, or death:
offense of a battle:
Русский
By meaning 4
attempt to cause damage, injury, or death:
offense of a battle:
volleyball: hit other than serve or block that sends the ball over the net:
medicine: sudden onset of a disease:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
attempt to cause damage, injury, or death:
medicine: sudden onset of a disease:

Origin

Borrowed from French attaque, derived from the verb attaquer, from Italian attaccare (“to

Borrowed from French attaque, derived from the verb attaquer, from Italian attaccare (“to join, attach”) (used in attaccare battaglia (“to join battle”)), from Frankish *stakkijan (“to stick, stick to, attach”). Doublet of attach. Displaced native Middle English onresen, from Old English onrǣsan (“to attack”); and Middle English resinge (“an assault, attack”) (compare Old English onrǣs (“an attack”)).

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Forms

plural: attacks
Singularattack
Pluralattacks

regular

Synonyms

13 synonyms
Close in meaning

Antonyms

2 antonyms

Word family

25 related words

Collocations

12 patterns
  • a heart attack
  • heart attack
  • attacked by a
  • was attacked by
  • in the attack
  • got attacked by
  • panic attack
  • dog attacked
  • a panic attack
  • survive the attack
  • an an attack
  • heart attack last

See also

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