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General dictionaries General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. attack: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  2. attack: Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition [home, info]
  3. attack: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
  4. ATTACK, Attack, attack: Wordnik [home, info]
  5. attack: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
  6. Attack: Wiktionary [home, info]
  7. attack: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  8. attack: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  9. attack: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  10. attack: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  11. attack: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
  12. attack: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  13. attack: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
  14. ATTACK (album), Attack (Pokemon), Attack (Pokémon), Attack (System of a Down song), Attack (electronics), Attack (fencing), Attack (poem), Attack (song), Attack, Attack, Attack, The Attack (Animorphs), The Attack (band), The Attack: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
  15. Attack: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  16. attack: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  17. attack: Rhymezone [home, info]
  18. attack: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  19. attack: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  20. attack: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  21. attack: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  22. attack: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  23. attack: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  24. attack: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
  25. attack: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations [home, info]

Art dictionaries Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Attack (see also Light, Thin Below): Epicurus.com Wine Glossary [home, info]
  2. Attack: Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary [home, info]

Business dictionaries Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. The Attack, attack: Legal dictionary [home, info]
  2. attack: BusinessDictionary.com [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. attack: Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary [home, info]
  2. attack: CCI Computer [home, info]
  3. Attack: Game Dictionary [home, info]
  4. attack: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary [home, info]
  5. attack: Hacking Lexicon [home, info]
  6. The Attack, attack: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine dictionaries Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. attack: Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary [home, info]
  2. Attack: MedFriendly Glossary [home, info]
  3. attack: online medical dictionary [home, info]
  4. The Attack, attack: Medical dictionary [home, info]

Miscellaneous dictionaries Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. ATTACK: Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary [home, info]
  2. Attack: Brilliant Dream Dictionary [home, info]
  3. attack: Idioms [home, info]

Slang dictionaries Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. attack: The Folk File [home, info]

Sports dictionaries Sports (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Attack: Chess Dictionary [home, info]
  2. attack, attack, attack: Hickok Sports Glossaries [home, info]
  3. attack: Golfer's Dictionary [home, info]
  4. Attack: Sports Definitions [home, info]

Tech dictionaries Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Attack: AUTOMOTIVE TERMS [home, info]
  2. attack: Rane Professional Audio Reference [home, info]
  3. Attack: Sweetwater Music [home, info]

Quick definitions (attack)

noun:  a decisive manner of beginning a musical tone or phrase
noun:  an offensive move in a sport or game ("They won the game with a 10-hit attack in the 9th inning")
noun:  the act of attacking ("Attacks on women increased last year")
noun:  (military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons) ("The attack began at dawn")
noun:  strong criticism ("He published an unexpected attack on my work")
noun:  the onset of a corrosive or destructive process (as by a chemical agent) ("The film was sensitive to attack by acids")
noun:  a sudden occurrence of an uncontrollable condition ("An attack of diarrhea")
noun:  ideas or actions intended to deal with a problem or situation ("An attack on inflation")
noun:  intense adverse criticism ("The government has come under attack")
verb:  begin to injure ("The cancer cells are attacking his liver")
verb:  set to work upon; turn one's energies vigorously to a task ("I attacked the problem as soon as I got out of bed")
verb:  attack in speech or writing ("The editors of the left-leaning paper attacked the new House Speaker")
verb:  take the initiative and go on the offensive ("The Serbs attacked the village at night")
verb:  launch an attack or assault on; begin hostilities or start warfare with ("Hitler attacked Poland on September 1, 1939 and started World War II")
verb:  attack someone physically or emotionally

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