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attacking

 
Adjective attacking has 1 sense
  1. assaultive, attacking - disposed to attack
    Antonym: defensive (indirect, via offensive)
Verb attack has 6 senses
  1. attack, assail - launch an attack or assault on; begin hostilities or start warfare with; "Hitler attacked Poland on September 1, 1939 and started World War II"; "Serbian forces assailed Bosnian towns all week"
    --1 is one way to fight, struggle
    Antonyms: defend
    Derived forms: noun attack1, noun attacker1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s somebody
  2. attack, round, assail, lash out, snipe, assault - attack in speech or writing; "The editors of the left-leaning paper attacked the new House Speaker"
    --2 is one way to knock, criticize, criticise, pick apart
    Derived forms: noun attack3, noun attacker1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s somebody
    Something ----s somebody
    Something ----s something
  3. attack, aggress - take the initiative and go on the offensive; "The Serbs attacked the village at night"; "The visiting team started to attack"
    --3 is one way to act, move
    Derived forms: noun attack1, noun attacker1
    Sample sentences:
    Something ----s
    Somebody ----s
    => Somebody ----s something
    => Somebody ----s somebody
  4. assail, assault, set on, attack - attack someone physically or emotionally; "The mugger assaulted the woman"; "Nightmares assailed him regularly"
    Derived forms: noun attack4, noun attacker1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s somebody
    Something ----s somebody
  5. attack - set to work upon; turn one's energies vigorously to a task; "I attacked the problem as soon as I got out of bed"
    --5 is one way to
    get down, begin, get, start out, start, set about, set out, commence
    Derived form: noun attacker1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  6. attack - begin to injure; "The cancer cells are attacking his liver"; "Rust is attacking the metal"
    --6 is one way to
    affect
    Derived forms: noun attack6, noun attacker1
    Sample sentence:
    Something ----s something
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