English Dictionary

attack

/əˈtæk/

verb

(transitive) To apply violent force to someone or something.

The lion attacked its prey with great ferocity.

意味（1）

(transitive) To apply violent force to someone or something.

This species of snake will only attack humans if it feels threatened.

意味（2）

(transitive) 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.

意味（3）

(transitive) 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.

意味（4）

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

We’ll have dinner before we attack the biology homework.

意味（5）

(transitive, cricket) To aim balls at the batsman’s wicket.

意味（6）

(intransitive, cricket) To set a field, or bowl in a manner designed to get wickets.

意味（7）

(intransitive, cricket) To bat aggressively, so as to score runs quickly.

意味（8）

(soccer) To 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.

意味（9）

(cycling) To accelerate quickly in an attempt to get ahead of the other riders.

意味（10）

(chemistry) (Of a chemical species) To approach a chemical species or bond in order to form a bond with it.