attack

Roget category 716

5. Words relating to the voluntary powers
› 5.4. Antagonism
›› 5.4.2. Active antagonism

#716. Attack

noun

attack — assault, assault and battery — onset, onslaught, charge.
aggression, offense — incursion, inroad, invasion — irruption — outbreak — estrapade^†, ruade^† — coupe de main, sally, sortie, camisade^†, raid, foray — run at, run against — dead set at.
storm, storming — boarding, escalade^† — siege, investment, obsession^†, bombardment, cannonade.
fire, volley — platoon fire, file fire — fusillade — sharpshooting, broadside — raking fire, cross fire — volley of grapeshot, whiff of the grape, feu d'enfer [Fr.].
cut, thrust, lunge, pass, passado^†, carte and tierce [Fr.], home thrust — coupe de bec [Fr.] — kick, punch etc. (impulse) 276.
battue^†, razzia^†, Jacquerie, dragonnade^† — devastation etc. 162 — eboulement [Fr.].
assailant, aggressor, invader.
base of operations, point of attack — echelon.

verb

attack, assault, assail — invade — set upon, fall upon — charge, impugn, break a lance with, enter the lists.
assume the offensive, take the offensive — be the aggressor, become the aggressor — strike the first blow, draw first blood, throw the first stone at — lift a hand against, draw the sword against — take up the cudgels — advance against, march against — march upon, harry — come on, show fight.
strike at, poke at, thrust at — aim a blow at, deal a blow at — give one a blow, fetch one a blow, fetch one a kick, give one a kick — have a cut at, have a shot at, take a cut at, take a shot at, have a fling at, have a shy at — be down upon, pounce upon — fall foul of, pitch into, launch out against — bait, slap on the face — make a thrust at, make a pass at, make a set at, make a dead set at — bear down upon.
close with, come to close quarters — bring to bay.
ride full tilt against — attack tooth and nail, go at hammer and tongs.
let fly at, dash at, run a tilt at, rush at, tilt at, run at, fly at, hawk at, have at, let out at — make a dash, make a rush at — strike home — drive one hard — press one hard — be hard upon, run down, strike at the root of.
lay about one, run amuck.
aim at, draw a bead on [U.S.].
fire upon, fire at, fire a shot at — shoot at, pop at, level at, let off a gun at — open fire, pepper, bombard, shell, pour a broadside into — fire a volley, fire red-hot shot — spring a mine.
throw a stone, throw stones at — stone, lapidate^†, pelt — hurl at, hurl against, hurl at the head of — rock beset [U.S.], besiege, beleaguer — lay siege to, invest, open the trenches, plant a battery, sap, mine — storm, board, scale the walls.
cut and thrust, bayonet, butt — kick, strike etc. (impulse) 276 — whip etc. (punish) 972.
[attack verbally] assail, impugn — malign (detract) 934.
bomb, rocket, blast.

adjective

attacking etc. v. — aggressive, offensive, obsidional^†.
up in arms.

adverb

on the offensive.

interjection

up and at them! "

phrase

the din of arms, the yell of savage rage, the the din of arms, the yell of savage rage, the shriek of agony, the groan of death" [Southey]; their fatal hands no second stroke intend" [Paradise Lost]; thirst for glory quells the love of life" [Addison].

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