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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | heavy attack |
| Synonyms: | assault, blitzkrieg, bombardment, bombing, lightning attack, offensive, onslaught, raid, shelling, strike |
| Antonyms: | let-up |
| Main Entry: | aggression |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hostile or forceful behavior, attitude |
| Synonyms: | aggressiveness, antagonism, belligerence, blitz, combativeness, destructiveness, fight, hostility, pugnacity, push |
| Main Entry: | assault |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | attack |
| Synonyms: | abuse, advance, assail, bash, beset, blast, blitz, bushwhack, charge, come down on, go for, haul off on, invade, jump, jump down one's throat, jump on one's case, lay into, let have it, light into, rape, ruin, set upon, shoot down, slam, slap around, storm, strike, trash, violate, work over, zap |
| Notes: | to assail a task is to approach it with the intent of mastering it, from Latin salire 'to leap'; assault is also based on this word and assail and assault can be synonyms assault is an attempt or threat to do physical harm while battery is unjustified application of force; assault and battery is carrying out of threatened physical harm or violence |
| Main Entry: | attack |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | physical assault |
| Synonyms: | advance, aggression, assailing, assailment, barrage, blitz, blitzkrieg, charge, defilement, dirty deed, drive, encounter, encroachment, foray, incursion, initiative, inroad, intervention, intrusion, invasion, irruption, mugging, offense, offensive, onrush, onset, onslaught, outbreak, push, raid, rape, rush, skirmish, storming, strike, thrust, violation, volley |
| Antonyms: | aid, defense, flight, protection, resistance, retreat, shelter, shield, support, surrender, sustenance |
| Main Entry: | attack |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | assault verbally |
| Synonyms: | abuse, berate, blame, blitz, censure, criticize, impugn, jump down one's throat, jump on one's case, lay into, malign, refute, reprove, revile, shoot down, stretch, vilify |
| Antonyms: | defend, resist, submit, withstand |
| Main Entry: | bomb |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | detonate weapon |
| Synonyms: | attack, blast, blitz, blow up, bombard, cannonade, destroy, napalm, prang, raid, rain destruction, rake, shell, strafe, torpedo, wipe out, zero in |
| Main Entry: | bombard |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | assault, attack |
| Synonyms: | assail, barrage, batter, beset, besiege, blast, blitz, bomb, cannonade, catapult, fire upon, harass, hound, launch, open fire, pester, pound, shell, strafe, strike |
| Main Entry: | carnage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | massacre |
| Synonyms: | annihilation, blitz, blood, blood and guts, blood bath, bloodshed, butchering, butchery, crime, extermination, gore, havoc, hecatomb, holocaust, homicide, killing, liquidation, manslaughter, mass murder, murder, offing, rapine, search and destroy, shambles, slaughter, slaying, taking out, warfare, wasting |
| Main Entry: | charge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | attack |
| Synonyms: | assault, blitz, blitzkrieg, invasion, mugging, onset, onslaught, outbreak, push, rush, sortie |
| Antonyms: | retreat |
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