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Attack Attacked Attacking Person Place Means Hurt Damage

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To a_____ a person or place means to try to hurt or damage them using physical violence .To attack a person or place means to try to hurt or damage them using physical violence .
Fifty civilians were killed when government planes attacked the town.
The robbers brutally attacked the security guard.
While Haig and Foch argued, the Germans attacked.
The infantry would use hit and run tactics to slow attacking forces.
...a campaign of air attacks on strategic targets.
Refugees had come under attack from federal troops.
word attack
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To attack a person or place means to try to hurt or damage them using physical violence .
Fifty civilians were killed when government planes attacked the town.
The robbers brutally attacked the security guard.
While Haig and Foch argued, the Germans attacked.
The infantry would use hit and run tactics to slow attacking forces.
...a campaign of air attacks on strategic targets.
Refugees had come under attack from federal troops.
If you attack a person, belief, idea, or act, you criticize them strongly.
He publicly attacked the people who've been calling for secret ballot nominations.
A newspaper ran an editorial attacking him for being a showman.
The role of the state as a prime mover in planning social change has been under attack.
The committee yesterday launched a scathing attack on British business for failing to invest.
If something such as a disease, a chemical, or an insect attacks something, it harms or spoils it.
The virus seems to have attacked his throat.
Several key crops failed when they were attacked by pests.
This greatly reduces attacks from pests and diseases.
If you attack a job or a problem, you start to deal with it in an energetic way.
...an attempt to attack the budget problem.
In games such as football, when one team attacks the opponent's goal, they try to score a goal.
Now the U.S. is controlling the ball and attacking the opponent's goal.
The goal was just reward for Villa's decision to attack constantly in the second half.
Lee was at the hub of some incisive attacks in the second half.
Manchester City will play a more attacking style of football.
noun
An attack of an illness is a short period in which you suffer badly from it.
It had brought on an attack of asthma.
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cefr-level A2

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