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Meaning:
Noun:
- An attempt to cause damage or injury to, or to somehow detract from the worth or credibility of, a person, position, idea, object, or thing, by physical, verbal, emotional, or other assault.
- A time in which one attacks. The offence of a battle.
- audio The amount of time it takes for the volume of an audio signal to go from zero to maximum level (e.g. an audio waveform representing a snare drum hit would feature a very fast attack, whereas that of a wave washing to shore would feature a slow attack).
- cricket Collectively, the bowlers of a cricket side.
- lacrosse The three attackmen on the field or all the attackmen of a team.
- medicine The sudden onset of a disease.
- volleyball Any contact with the ball other than a serve or block which sends the ball across the plane of the net.
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Verb:
- intransitive|cricket To bat aggressively, so as to score runs quickly.
- intransitive|cricket To set a field, or bowl in a manner designed to get wickets.
- transitive|cricket To aim balls at the batsman?s wicket.
- transitive To aggressively challenge a person, idea, etc., with words (''particularly in newspaper headlines, because it typesets into less space than "criticize" or similar'').
- transitive To apply violent force to someone or something.
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