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ATTACKING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Disposed to attack
Synonyms:
assaultive; attacking
Classified under:
Similar:
offensive (for the purpose of attack rather than defense)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb attack
Context examples:
It’s attacking my nerve-centres, eating them up, bit by bit, cell by cell—from the pain.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Thus, Jimmy and his gang, strung out on the long, lower steps, met the attacking gang.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
To think of your going and attacking me, that have always been a friend to you!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The ropes of varying length prevented the dogs attacking from the rear those that ran in front of them.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
If her aunt's feelings were against her, nothing could be hoped from attacking her understanding.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
It was Spitz, treacherously attacking from the side.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
This system provides both an independent immune system capable of attacking microbes as well as other foreign material and an adjunct to the antibody system.
(Complement Component Gene, NCI Thesaurus)
On Sunday, November 24, Mars in Scorpio will oppose Uranus in Taurus, and each planet is attacking one another from your two financial houses—your second and eighth houses.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Mrs. Morland watched the progress of this relapse; and seeing, in her daughter's absent and dissatisfied look, the full proof of that repining spirit to which she had now begun to attribute her want of cheerfulness, hastily left the room to fetch the book in question, anxious to lose no time in attacking so dreadful a malady.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
The English archers and men-at-arms had mustered at that end of the lists, but the vast majority of the spectators were in favor of the attacking party, for the English had declined in popularity ever since the bitter dispute as to the disposal of the royal captive after the battle of Poictiers.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
