attacked
Meaning of attacked
verb
- To apply violent force to someone or something.
This species of snake will only attack humans if it feels threatened.
- To aggressively challenge a person, idea, etc., with words (particularly in newspaper headlines, because it typesets into less space than "criticize" or similar).
She published an article attacking the recent pay cuts.
- To begin to affect; to act upon injuriously or destructively; to begin to decompose or waste.
- To deal with something in a direct way; to set to work upon.
I attacked the meal with a hearty appetite.
- To aim balls at the batsman’s wicket.
- To set a field, or bowl in a manner designed to get wickets.
- To bat aggressively, so as to score runs quickly.
- To move forward in an active attempt to score a point, as opposed to trying not to concede.
- To accelerate quickly in an attempt to get ahead of the other riders.
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Hyphenation of attacked
at-tacked
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- attacked is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
Words that rhyme with attacked
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