attacknoun/əˈtæk/

• 1

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

  • From 1906 to 1960, there were forty-six recorded shark attacks, half of which were fatal.
  • One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools[…]as children, teachers or school buildings become the targets of attacks. Parents fear sending their children to school. Girls are particularly vulnerable to sexual violence.
• 2

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

  • Combat in Mimesis Online is nice and simple. You click on your target […] and then keep right-clicking your chosen attack from the drop down menu. Every time you right click on the attack, your character will swing, shoot, etc.
  • Kleavor has several attacks that it's worth roughly memorising: a charge attack, where it runs at you quickly; a jump attack, that causes a pillar of rock to spike out from under the ground; and a spin attack that does damage in a circle around it.
• 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.

  • “I came down like a wolf on the fold, didn’t I ? Why didn’t I telephone ? Strategy, my dear boy, strategy. This is a surprise attack, and I’d no wish that the garrison, forewarned, should escape. …”
  • 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.
• 5

  informalThe beginning of active operations on anything.

  • Having washed the plates from dinner, I made an attack on the laundry.
• 6

  computingengineeringmathematicsAn attempt to exploit a vulnerability in a computer system.

  • birthday attack; denial-of-service attack
• 7

  ball-gamescricketgamesCollectively, the bowlers of a cricket side.

• 8

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

attackverb/əˈtæk/

• 1

  To apply violent force to someone or something.

  • This species of snake will only attack humans if it feels threatened.
  • Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.
• 2

  To aggressively challenge a person, idea, etc., with words (particularly in newspaper headlines, because it typesets into less space than "criticize" or similar).

  • She published an article attacking the recent pay cuts.
  • It was puzzling to read a column that claimed to be attacking me, yet espoused the main ideas in my article.
• 3

  To begin to affect; to act upon injuriously or destructively; to begin to decompose or waste.

  • On the fourth of March he was attacked by fever.
  • Hydrofluoric acid […] attacks the glass.
• 4

  To deal with something in a direct way; to set to work upon.

  • We’ll have dinner before we attack the biology homework.
  • I attacked the meal with a hearty appetite.
• 5

  ball-gamescricketgamesTo aim balls at the batsman’s wicket.

• 6

  ball-gamescricketgamesTo set a field, or bowl in a manner designed to get wickets.

• 7

  ball-gamescricketgamesTo bat aggressively, so as to score runs quickly.

• 8

  ball-gamesgameshobbiesTo move forward in an active attempt to score a point, as opposed to trying not to concede.

  • Six successive defeats had left them rooted to the bottom of the Premier League table but, clearly under instructions to attack from the outset, Bolton started far the brighter.

attackadj/əˈtæk/

• 1

  Designed or kept for the purpose of confrontation.

  • attack dog, attack ad

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• heart attack