Attack

//əˈtæk//

Synonyms for "attack" (598 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (120)

Verb(12 words)

aggress assail assault abuse beat beleaguer bepommel beset besiege bombard charge check

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Noun(3 words)

approach attempt blast

Strong matches (179)

damn declare war decompose decrial decry defamation defy delivery denigrate denigration denounce denunciation deprecate deprecation descend descend on descend upon descent design destroy

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destruction device devour diatribe disease disorder disorderliness disparage disparagement disposition dissolve diurnal epilepsy dive into diversion draw first blood drive eat eclampsia embark in embark upon encompass endeavor engage engage in engage in battle enter on enter upon enterprise enunciation envisagement epilepsia epilepsia gravior epilepsia major epilepsia minor epilepsia mitior epilepsia nutans epilepsia tarda epilepsy epitasis erode erosion excoriate execration fall fall into fall on fall to fall upon falling sickness fashion fay fever fight fighting figuring fire fit flay focal epilepsy foray forcible seizure foresight forethought form frenzy furor fury fustigate game gang up on get busy get cracking get going get under way get with it go go about go at go for go in for go into go on go to it go upon grand mal graphing grip ground plan guideline guidelines guise hammer harass hard words harry haute mal have at hit hit like lightning hop to it hostilities hot war hysterical epilepsy ictus idea impeach implicate implication impugn impugnment incriminate incrimination inculpate inculpation incursion infect infiltration inroad intention invade invasion invective inveigh against invest involve involvement irrupt jacksonian epilepsy jawing jeremiad jingoism jump jump to it killing la guerre lace lambaste land on larval epilepsy laryngeal epilepsy laryngospasm lash latent epilepsy launch forth launch into lay about lay about one lay at

Verb(7 words)

dust up fall on fall upon hit impugn invade lash out

Noun(4 words)

fire flack flak hit

Related words (299)

lay hands on lay into lay on lay waste laying waste layout levy war on light light into line line of action lines lineup lockjaw long-range plan loot looting make make war on malign

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manner manner of working mapping massacre master plan matutinal epilepsy maul means menstrual epilepsy method methodology might of arms militarization military operations mo mobilization mode mode of operation mode of procedure modus operandi molest move into muckraking mudslinging mug mugging murderous insanity musicogenic epilepsy muster myoclonous epilepsy nocturnal epilepsy obstreperousness occlusion offense offensive onset onslaught open hostilities open war operations research oppose order organization orgasm outbreak outburst outrage overkill paroxysm pelt petit mal philippic phonation physiologic epilepsy picture pile pillage pillaging pitch pitch in pitch into plan planning planning function plunge into pounce pounce upon pound practice prearrangement press procedure proceed proceed to proceeding process program program of action pronunciation psychic epilepsy psychokinesia psychomotor epilepsy pugnacity pull push rage raid rail ramp rampage rant rape rating rationalization rave reflection reflex epilepsy reprimand resist resort to arms revile revilement riot rioting roar roast rolandic epilepsy rotatoria rough routine rubbish ruin run against run at rush sack sacking sail into sally savage scarify scathe schedule schema schematism schematization scheme scheme of arrangement scorch screed seize seizure sensory epilepsy serial epilepsy set about set at set forward set going set on set to set to work set upon setup sexual climax shell shock tactics shooting war siege skin alive skirmish slam slander slap slash slaughter smear snap sortie sow chaos sowing with salt spasm spell square up start start in state of war stoppage storm strategic plan strategy strike strike at stroke style surprise swoop down on swoop down upon system systematization tack tackle tactical plan tactics take on take the offensive take up tardy epilepsy tear tear around technique terrorize tetanus tetany the big picture the drill the how the picture the sword the way of throes thromboembolism thrombosis thrust tilt tirade tone tone beginning tongue lashing tongue-lashing tonic epilepsy tonic spasm torsion spasm total war traumatic epilepsy trismus trounce turn turn on turn to ucinate epilepsy undertake unruliness utterance vandalize venture venture upon vilification vilify violate violation violence visit visitation vituperate vituperation vocalization voicing wade into war warfare warmaking warmongering warring wartime waste wasting way wise working plan wreck

Verb(23 words)

lay into lay siege let someone have it light into onfall onset overrun pommel pounce pound round rush savage set on set the dogs upon set upon snipe storm strike strike at

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thrust wap whap

Noun(6 words)

onrush onset onslaught plan of attack spike tone-beginning

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

14 relation types

More general

37 entries

act affect affliction begin beginning commence commencement conceptualisation conceptualization contend crime criminal offence criminal offense criticise criticism criticize

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More specific

82 entries

Adams-Stokes attack Byzantine attack Coppersmith's attack Grob's attack Stokes-Adams attack Sybil attack TOAD attack X-ray attack acid attack ambush arson attack asthma attack asthmatic attack billion laughs attack bio-attack bioattack

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Antonyms

11 entries

cease cease fire defence defend defense defense position fire position retreat surrender

Synonyms

3 entries

approach assail fire

Related terms

3 entries

attach fight harm

causes desire

1 entries

fence

derived

38 entries

angle of attack attack ad attack aircraft attack au fer attack dog attack helicopter attack is the best form of defence attack is the best form of defense attack page attack plan attack rate attack surface attack therapy attack time attack timing attack vector

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distinct from

3 entries

defend defense retreat

has context

9 entries

audio cricket cycling lacrosse medicine military music soccer volleyball

is a

13 entries

action on object affliction beginning crime criticism degeneration military action military attack offensive operation operation political party turn violence

manner of

5 entries

act affect fight get down knock

motivated by_goal

1 entries

terrorize

related to

151 entries

accelerate accosting action activity after against against someone aggression aggressive aggressive action aggressive activity aggressive maneuver aggressive move aim ambush amount

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similar

2 entries

aggress assail

Translations

464 translations across 104 languages.

Afrikaans

1 entries

aanval noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)

Albanian

2 entries

sulm noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
sulmoj verb (to apply violent force)

Amharic

2 entries

መምታት noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
ማጥቃት noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)

Ancient Greek

4 entries

προσβολή noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
προσβολή noun (offense of a battle)
προσβάλλω verb (to apply violent force)
ἐπορούω verb (to apply violent force)

Arabic

3 entries

حَمْلَة noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
هُجُوم m هَجْمَة noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
هَاجَمَ verb (to apply violent force)

Armenian

4 entries

գրոհ noun (offense of a battle)
հարձակում noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
նոպա noun (medicine: sudden onset of a disease)
արշավել verb (to apply violent force)

Azerbaijani

4 entries

hücum noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
həmlə noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
tutma noun (medicine: sudden onset of a disease)
basqın etmək verb (to apply violent force)

Bashkir

1 entries

һөжүм noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)

Basque

3 entries

eraso noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
erasoaldi noun (offense of a battle)
eraso verb (to apply violent force)

Belarusian

4 entries

напа́д noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
нападзе́нне noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
нападзе́ньне noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
атакава́ць verb (to apply violent force)

Bengali

2 entries

আক্রমণ noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
হামলা noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)

Breton

4 entries

argadenn noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
argadenn noun (offense of a battle)
kerc'h noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
argadiñ verb (to apply violent force)

Bulgarian

4 entries

ата́ка noun (offense of a battle)
нападе́ние noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
нападе́ние noun (offense of a battle)
настъпле́ние noun (offense of a battle)

Burmese

1 entries

ရန်ပြု verb (to apply violent force)

Catalan

4 entries

accés noun (active episode of a chronic or recurrent disease)
atac noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
atac noun (offense of a battle)
atac noun (medicine: sudden onset of a disease)

Central Kurdish

2 entries

پەلەمار noun (offense of a battle)
تێبەربوون verb (to apply violent force)

Cheyenne

1 entries

a'eotse verb (to apply violent force)

Chinese Cantonese

1 entries

攻擊 /攻击 noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)

Chinese Mandarin

4 entries

攻擊 /攻击 noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
攻擊 /攻击 noun (offense of a battle)
打擊 /打击 verb (to apply violent force)
攻擊 /攻击 verb (to apply violent force)

Cornish

2 entries

omsettyans noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
omsettya verb (to apply violent force)

Czech

4 entries

napadení noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
útok noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
útok noun (offense of a battle)
útočit verb (to apply violent force)

Danish

4 entries

anfald noun (medicine: sudden onset of a disease)
angreb noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
angreb noun (offense of a battle)
angribe verb (to apply violent force)

Dutch

4 entries

aanslag noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
aanval noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
aanval noun (offense of a battle)
aanval noun (volleyball: hit other than serve or block that sends the ball over the net)

Esperanto

4 entries

agreso noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
atako noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
atako noun (offense of a battle)
agresi verb (to apply violent force)

Estonian

4 entries

haigushoog noun (medicine: sudden onset of a disease)
kallaletung noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
rünnak noun (offense of a battle)
halvustama verb (to aggressively challenge with words)

Finnish

4 entries

aloitus noun (amount of time it takes for the volume of an audio signal to go from zero to maximum level)
hyökkäys noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
hyökkäys noun (attempt to detract from the worth or credibility of, a person, position, idea, object, or thing)
hyökkäys noun (offense of a battle)

French

4 entries

attaque noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
attaque noun (offense of a battle)
apostropher verb (to aggressively challenge with words)
attaquer verb (to apply violent force)

Galician

4 entries

ataque noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
ataque noun (offense of a battle)
atacar verb (to apply violent force)
atacar verb (to aggressively challenge with words)

Georgian

4 entries

თავდასხმა noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
თავდასხმა noun (offense of a battle)
იერიში noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
იერიში noun (offense of a battle)

German

4 entries

Anfall noun (medicine: sudden onset of a disease)
Anfall noun (active episode of a chronic or recurrent disease)
Angriff noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
Angriff noun (offense of a battle)

Greek

4 entries

έφοδος noun (offense of a battle)
ανάκρουση noun (amount of time it takes for the volume of an audio signal to go from zero to maximum level)
επίθεση noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
επίθεση noun (offense of a battle)

Hebrew

3 entries

הַתְקָפָה noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
מִתְקָפָה noun (offense of a battle)
הִתְקִיף verb (to apply violent force)

Hindi

4 entries

आक्रमण noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
आक्रमण noun (offense of a battle)
हमला noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
आक्रमण करना verb (to apply violent force)

Hungarian

4 entries

támadás noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
támadás noun (offense of a battle)
megtámad verb (to apply violent force)
nekimegy verb (to apply violent force)

Icelandic

1 entries

árás noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)

Ido

1 entries

atako noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)

Indonesian

4 entries

anfal noun (medicine: sudden onset of a disease)
kritis noun (medicine: sudden onset of a disease)
serangan noun (offense of a battle)
serangan noun (medicine: sudden onset of a disease)

Ingrian

1 entries

ammus noun (medicine: sudden onset of a disease)

Iranian Persian

4 entries

حَمْلِه noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
هُجوم noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
یورِش noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
یورِش noun (offense of a battle)

Irish

4 entries

aimsiú noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
amas noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
ionsaí noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
ionsaí noun (offense of a battle)

Italian

4 entries

attacco noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
attacco noun (offense of a battle)
attacco noun (medicine: sudden onset of a disease)
aggredire verb (to apply violent force)

Japanese

3 entries

攻撃 noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
攻撃 noun (offense of a battle)
攻撃する verb (to apply violent force)

Kabuverdianu

2 entries

agredí verb (to apply violent force)
agridi verb (to apply violent force)

Kazakh

2 entries

шабуыл noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
шабуыл жасау verb (to apply violent force)

Khmer

1 entries

កន្លុក verb (to apply violent force)

Korean

4 entries

공격 noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
공격 noun (offense of a battle)
공격하다 verb (to apply violent force)
돌격하다 verb (to apply violent force)

Kyrgyz

4 entries

асылуу noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
атака кылуу noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
зыян noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
качыруу noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)

Lao

3 entries

ການໂຈມຕີ noun (offense of a battle)
ທຳຮ້າຍ verb (to apply violent force)
ໂຈມຕີ verb (to apply violent force)

Latin

4 entries

aggressiō noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
impetus noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
impetus noun (offense of a battle)
impugnātiō noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)

Latvian

2 entries

uzbrukums noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
uzbrukt verb (to apply violent force)

Lithuanian

4 entries

ataka noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
puolimas noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
atakuoti verb (to apply violent force)
pulti verb (to apply violent force)

Lower Sorbian

1 entries

napad noun (offense of a battle)

Macedonian

4 entries

атака noun (offense of a battle)
напад noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
напад noun (offense of a battle)
атакува verb (to apply violent force)

Malay

3 entries

serangan noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
serangan noun (offense of a battle)
menyerang verb (to apply violent force)

Malayalam

2 entries

ആക്രമണം noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
ആക്രമിക്കുക verb (to apply violent force)

Manx

1 entries

soiaghey er verb (to apply violent force)

Middle English

1 entries

enemyte noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)

Mongolian

3 entries

дайралт noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
дайрах verb (to apply violent force)
довтлох verb (to apply violent force)

Māori

4 entries

huaki noun (offense of a battle)
kōkiri noun (offense of a battle)
pāha noun (offense of a battle)
upokotaua noun (offense of a battle)

Nepali

2 entries

आक्रमण noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
हमला noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)

Ngazidja Comorian

1 entries

shamɓulio noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)

Norman

4 entries

attaque noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
attaque noun (offense of a battle)
attatchi verb (to apply violent force)
attatchi verb (to aggressively challenge with words)

North Frisian

1 entries

uungribe verb (to apply violent force)

Northern Kurdish

1 entries

êrîş noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)

Northern Thai

2 entries

ᨧᩰᩫ᩠ᨾᨲᩦ verb (to apply violent force)
ᨮᩣᩴᩁ᩶ᩤ᩠ᨿ verb (to apply violent force)

Norwegian Bokmål

2 entries

anfall noun (medicine: sudden onset of a disease)
angrep noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)

Norwegian Nynorsk

3 entries

anfall noun (medicine: sudden onset of a disease)
angrep noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
åtak noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)

Occitan

2 entries

atac noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
atacar verb (to apply violent force)

Odia

1 entries

ଆକ୍ରମଣ noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)

Old Church Slavonic

1 entries

напасти verb (to apply violent force)

Old English

3 entries

onrǣs noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
onrǣs noun (offense of a battle)
rǣsan verb (to apply violent force)

Old Norse

2 entries

sókn noun (offense of a battle)
sǿkja verb (to apply violent force)

Pashto

2 entries

حمله noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
هجوم noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)

Persian

2 entries

حمله کردن verb (to apply violent force)
هجوم آوردن verb (to apply violent force)

Plautdietsch

2 entries

Aunfaul noun (medicine: sudden onset of a disease)
Aunfaul noun (active episode of a chronic or recurrent disease)

Polish

4 entries

akcja noun (offense of a battle)
atak noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
atak noun (attempt to detract from the worth or credibility of, a person, position, idea, object, or thing)
atak noun (offense of a battle)

Portuguese

4 entries

ataque noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
ataque noun (offense of a battle)
ataque noun (medicine: sudden onset of a disease)
investida noun (offense of a battle)

Romanian

3 entries

atac noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
atac noun (offense of a battle)
ataca verb (to apply violent force)

Russian

4 entries

ата́ка noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
ата́ка noun (offense of a battle)
ата́ка noun (volleyball: hit other than serve or block that sends the ball over the net)
нападе́ние noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)

Scottish Gaelic

4 entries

f noun (offense of a battle)
ionnsaigh noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
ionnsaigh noun (offense of a battle)
thoir ionnsaigh verb (to apply violent force)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries

nápad noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
на́пад noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
nàpadati verb (to apply violent force)
nàpasti verb (to apply violent force)

Slovak

4 entries

napadnutie noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
útok noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
útok noun (offense of a battle)
napadnúť verb (to apply violent force)

Slovene

4 entries

napad noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
napad noun (offense of a battle)
napad noun (medicine: sudden onset of a disease)
napasti verb (to apply violent force)

Spanish

4 entries

ataque noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
ataque noun (offense of a battle)
ataque noun (medicine: sudden onset of a disease)
atacar verb (to apply violent force)

Swahili

2 entries

mashambulizi noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
mashambulizi noun (offense of a battle)

Swedish

4 entries

anfall noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
anfall noun (offense of a battle)
attack noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
attack noun (offense of a battle)

Tajik

4 entries

юриш noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
ҳамла noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
ҳуҷум noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
ҳамла кардан verb (to apply violent force)

Tamil

4 entries

தாக்குதல் noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
தாக்குதல் noun (offense of a battle)
தாக்கு verb (to apply violent force)
தாக்கு verb (to aggressively challenge with words)

Tatar

1 entries

һөҗүм noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)

Telugu

4 entries

దాడి noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
దాడి noun (offense of a battle)
దండెత్తు verb (to apply violent force)
దాడి చేయు verb (to apply violent force)

Thai

3 entries

การโจมตี noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
การโจมตี noun (offense of a battle)
โจมตี verb (to apply violent force)

Turkish

4 entries

hamle noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
hücum noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
hücûm noun (offense of a battle)
saldırı noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)

Turkmen

1 entries

hüjüm noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)

Ukrainian

4 entries

ата́ка noun (offense of a battle)
на́пад noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
на́пад noun (offense of a battle)
атакува́ти verb (to apply violent force)

Urdu

4 entries

آکْرَمَن noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
حَمْلَہ noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
ہَجْمَہ noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
ہُجُوم noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)

Uyghur

1 entries

ھۇجۇم noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)

Uzbek

4 entries

hamla noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
hujum noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
hamla qilmoq verb (to apply violent force)
hujum qilmoq verb (to apply violent force)

Vietnamese

4 entries

sự công kích noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
sự công kích noun (offense of a battle)
sự tấn công noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
công kích verb (to apply violent force)

Volapük

3 entries

tatak noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
tatakön verb (to apply violent force)
tatakön verb (to aggressively challenge with words)

Walloon

4 entries

ataker verb (to apply violent force)
ataker verb (to aggressively challenge with words)
ataker verb (soccer: to move forward in an attempt to score point)
atouwer verb (to aggressively challenge with words)

Welsh

4 entries

cyrch noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
pwl noun (medicine: sudden onset of a disease)
ymosodiad noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
cyrchu verb (to apply violent force)

West-Frisian

3 entries

oanfal noun (offense of a battle)
oanfalle verb (to apply violent force)
oanfalle verb (to aggressively challenge with words)

Yiddish

2 entries

אַטאַק noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
אַטאַקע noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)

Zazaki

4 entries

gur (diq) noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
hamle noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
hıcum noun (attempt to cause damage, injury, or death)
hıcum noun (offense of a battle)

Sample sentences

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Wolves won't usually attack people.

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I had an angina attack.

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The reformers were subject to every attack from the Establishment.

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We prepared for an attack.

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