attack

Definition

Examples

The IT team stopped a cyber attack on the company network.

Word Family

Synonyms

• assaultclose fighting during the culmination of a military attack
• strikea group's refusal to work in protest against low pay or bad work conditions
• offensivethe action of attacking an enemy

Collocations

• Easy heart attack
  describing heart attack (the locus of feelings and intuitions)
• Medium cyber attack on server
  a collocation phrase: cyber attack on server
• Hard launch an unprovoked attack
  to introduce or start commercially regarding an unprovoked attack
• Very Hard hostile takeover attack withstand
  describing hostile takeover attack withstand (troops belonging to the enemy's military forces)