·vi To make an onset or attack.
II. Attack ·noun A setting to work upon some task, ·etc.
III. Attack ·noun An access of disease; a fit of sickness.
IV. Attack ·noun An assault upon one's feelings or reputation with unfriendly or bitter words.
V. Attack ·noun The beginning of corrosive, decomposing, or destructive action, by a chemical agent.
VI. Attack ·vt To set to work upon, as upon a task or problem, or some object of labor or investigation.
VII. Attack ·vt To fall upon with force; to assail, as with force and arms; to Assault.
VIII. Attack ·noun The act of attacking, or falling on with force or violence; an onset; an assault;
— opposed to defense.
IX. Attack ·vt To begin to affect; to begin to act upon, injuriously or destructively; to begin to decompose or waste.
X. Attack ·vt To assail with unfriendly speech or writing; to begin a controversy with; to attempt to overthrow or bring into disrepute, by criticism or satire; to Censure; as, to attack a man, or his opinions, in a pamphlet.