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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | advance, foray |
| Synonyms: | encroachment, impingement, incursion, intrusion, invasion, irruption, onslaught, raid, trespass |
| Main Entry: | sortie |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | armed attack |
| Synonyms: | assault, charge, invasion, mission, offense, raid, rush, sally, strike |
| Main Entry: | blitzkrieg |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | charge |
| Synonyms: | assault, attack, blitz, bombardment, offensive, onslaught, raid, rush |
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| Main Entry: | attack |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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aggressive, attacking, batterfanged, ictic, obsidional, offensive, petulcous, up in arms
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| Main Entry: | descent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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deciduous, declivous, decurrent, decursive, defluous, demersal, descendent, descending, downgyred, labent, nodding to its fall, stillatitious
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| Concept: | Attack. |
| Category: | 1. Conditional antagonism |
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-nouns
attack; assault, assault and battery; onset, onslaught, charge., aggression, offense; incursion, inroad, invasion; irruption; outbreak; estrapade, ruade; coupe de main, sally, sortie, camisade, raid, foray; run at, run against; dead set at., storm, storming; boarding, escalade; siege, investment, obsession, bombardment, cannonade., fire, volley; platoon fire, file fire; fusillade; sharpshooting, broadside; raking fire, crossfire; volley of grapeshot, feu d'enfer., cut, thrust, lunge, pass, passado, carte and tierce, home thrust; coupe de bec; kick, punch (impulse)., battue, razzia, Jacquerie, dragonnade; devastation; eboulement., assailant, aggressor, invader., base of operations, point of attack; echelon.
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| Antonyms: | defense |
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| Concept: | [Motion downwards] Descent. |
| Category: | 4. Motion with reference to direction |
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-nouns
descent, descension, declension, declination; fall; falling: slump; drop, plunge, plummet, cadence; subsidence, collapse, lapse; downfall, tumble, slip, tilt, trip, lurch; cropper, culbute; titubation, stumble; fate of Icarus., avalanche, debacle, landslip, landslide., declivity, dip, hill.
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| Antonyms: | ascent |
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