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单词 attack
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noun | verb
attackattack1 /əˈtæk/ noun 1 an attack against a person► attack
an attempt to hurt another person:
  • The attack took place as he was walking home.
  • You need to be careful when you are traveling in the area, because there have been recent attacks on tourists.
    • ► assault
    a physical attack on someone. You use assault when the attack is treated as a crime:
  • Reed is serving a five-year jail sentence for burglary and assault.
    • ► mugging
    an attack on someone in a public place such as a street, in order to steal something from him or her:
  • Her phone and wallet were taken in the mugging last night.
    • 2 a military attack► attack
    an attempt to defeat enemy soldiers or damage a place in a war:
  • The enemy troops were planning an attack on the city.
  • More than 100 people were injured at the airport today in a terrorist attack.
    • ► invasion
    an occasion when an army enters a country in order to take control of it:
  • My parents left Czechoslovakia and came to the U.S. after the Russian invasion in 1968.
    • ► strike
    a sudden powerful attack by an army, especially an attack from the air that uses bombs:
  • Air strikes at the end of World War II destroyed over 50% of Tokyo.
    • ► raid
    a sudden attack on a place during a war:
  • They took prisoners during their raids on nearby villages.
    • ► ambush
    a sudden attack by someone who has been secretly waiting in a hidden place:
  • The soldiers moved into the area at night to prepare an ambush on enemy troops.
    • ► assault
    a military attack to take control of a place controlled by the enemy. Assault is more formal than attack:
  • During the American Revolutionary War, George Washington led many assaults against the British.
    • ► siege
    a situation in which the army or the police surround and attack a place and do not let anything go in or out of the place. They do this to get control of the place or force someone to come out of it:
  • The siege of the town lasted two months.
    • noun | verb
    attackattack2 /əˈtæk/ verb 1 to attack a person► attack
    to use violence against someone and try to hurt him or her:
  • The man attacked her as she was walking home at night.
  • He was attacked by a group of men outside the bar.
    • ► assault
    to attack someone violently. You use assault when the attack is treated as a crime:
  • Angry fans ran onto the football field and assaulted the referee.
    • ► mug
    to attack someone and take money from him or her in a public place such as a street:
  • I was mugged on my way home last night - they took all of my jewelry.
    • ► ambush
    to suddenly attack someone after waiting in a hidden place:
  • The judge was ambushed by a gang of men as he drove to work at the courthouse.
    • 2 to attack a place or country in a war► attack
    if an army or other group attacks a place, it fights the people in it and damages buildings:
  • The enemy attacked at night.
  • The village was attacked by enemy warplanes.
    • ► invade
    to enter a country with an army in order to take control of it:
  • World War II began when the Germans invaded Poland.
    • ► raid
    to attack a place suddenly, in a war:
  • Shortly after dawn, a small group of soldiers raided the enemy camp.
    • ► ambush
    to attack enemy soldiers after waiting in a hidden place:
  • The convoy of trucks was ambushed on the road to Kabul.
    • ► storm
    to attack a city or building using force, in order to take control of it:
  • Enemy soldiers stormed the city, and the people surrendered without a fight.
    •  ➔ see criticize for attack meaning “to say that someone or something is bad”
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