Definitions
To begin an assault, criticism, or harmful action.
Word origin
Borrowed from French attaque, derived from the verb attaquer, from Italian attaccare (“to join, attach”) (used in attaccare battaglia (“to join battle”)), from Frankish *stakkijan (“to stick, stick to, attach”). Doublet of attach. Displaced native Middle English onresen, from Old English onrǣsan (“to attack”); and Middle English resinge (“an assault, attack”) (compare Old English onrǣs (“an attack”)).
Used in a sentence
“From 1906 to 1960, there were forty-six recorded shark attacks, half of which were fatal.”
““I came down like a wolf on the fold, didn’t I ? Why didn’t I telephone ? Strategy, my dear boy, strategy. This is a surprise attack, and I’d no wish that the garrison, forewarned, should escape. …””
“They claimed the censorship of the article was an attack on free speech.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Harmful offensive action”6 letters
02“Launch an assault”6 letters
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