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Grammar : Verb
Spell : uh-tak
Phonetic Transcription : əˈtæk



Definition of attacking

Origin :
  • c.1600, from French attaquer (16c.), from Florentine Italian attaccare (battaglia) "join (battle)," thus the word is a doublet of attach, which was used 15c.-17c. also in the sense now reserved to attack. Related: Attacked; attacking.
  • verb assault physically
  • verb assault verbally
  • verb set to work
Example sentences :
  • The right of their position was nearest the attacking force.
  • Extract from : « The Raid From Beausejour; And How The Carter Boys Lifted The Mortgage » by Charles G. D. Roberts
  • And if you ask as friends, you have done us bitter wrong, by attacking us unprovoked.
  • Extract from : « Stories from Thucydides » by H. L. Havell
  • The sensibilities of the class you are attacking are soon blunted.
  • Extract from : « The Secret Agent » by Joseph Conrad
  • But on the attacking side the fight has brought terrible losses to Finn's men.
  • Extract from : « Beowulf » by Unknown
  • Menendez lost no time in attacking the Huguenot colonists of Carolina.
  • Extract from : « The Nation in a Nutshell » by George Makepeace Towle
  • The latter were afraid of him, while he merely refrained from attacking them.
  • Extract from : « White Fang » by Jack London
  • Besides, the wolves would not find their account in attacking them in herds.
  • Extract from : « The History of Louisiana » by Le Page Du Pratz
  • I may say that he has always a hearty manner of attacking his soup.
  • Extract from : « Ruggles of Red Gap » by Harry Leon Wilson
  • He had tasted their hot breath once when attacking the ranch in his Star Devil.
  • Extract from : « The Bluff of the Hawk » by Anthony Gilmore
  • An attacking party of five hundred was slain north of the town.
  • Extract from : « The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of VIII) » by Various

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