to attack
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4.9
- verb
- /əˈtæk/
:
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- So multiple sclerosis is an autoimmune disease that in which your body attacks your nervous system.
- ants attack
- attack larvae
One type of venom attacks your cardiovascular system.
- One type of venom attacks your cardiovascular system.
- And those antibodies then go to the thyroid and attack your own thyroid gland.
- A virus attacks a weak system, OK?
- That means our body's defense system essentially attacks normal, healthy tissue like the joints.
- So the body is basically turned on itself and starts to attack normal tissue.
- But you must also crucially, stop the T cells from attacking your own body's antigens.
- So increasing natural killer cells and things like that, that can better attack, you know, the cancer.
- Your immune system is attacking parts of your skin that it shouldn't be attacking.
- Well, when the key of inflammation becomes ongoing and chronic, it starts to attack healthy tissue.
- All the successful antibiotics are have a complex molecules that attack bacteria in more than one way.
- That's when those plant, those insects just go right in there and attack your plant.
- So that disease where the immune system attacks the body happens to women much more than to men.
- It would be like saying, well, you know, AIDS, we don't know how it attacks what we do.
- As in so like the immune system for us might attack, is what you're saying?
Examples
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So if you were to receive blood of the wrong type, your body would attack the foreign antigen.
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That means our body's defense system essentially attacks normal, healthy tissue like the joints.
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A virus attacks a weak system, OK?
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So the body is basically turned on itself and starts to attack normal tissue.
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Your immune system is attacking parts of your skin that it shouldn't be attacking.
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The Lone Star tick attacks humans and is a pest of domestic livestock and pets.
Academic text (1994) -
A virus can attack the immune system, causing serious health issues.
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When exposed to certain chemicals, the body may attack its own cells.
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The bacteria attack the tissue in the lungs, leading to pneumonia.
Synonyms
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1.0
To strike someone or something with force
885
1.4
To harm something so it becomes less useful, valuable, or healthy
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1.0
To cause a bad effect on people or things
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1.0
Harm someone's body or a part of it, often by accident
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4.7
To attack someone physically or try to hurt them
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8.0
To attack violently, upset someone deeply or criticize them strongly
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6.8
Cause someone to fall, become sick, or die suddenly
Antonyms
Idioms
Compounds
- NSFW
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3.9
A sudden violent act against civilians to make people afraid and reach political or religious goals
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2.5
A sudden time when breathing becomes very difficult and you make a high whistling sound
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6
5.5
An attack using bacteria, viruses or poisons to harm people, animals and crops
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2
5.5
A military ship that travels under water to find and destroy enemy ships
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2
7.7
The angle between incoming air and a wing's front-to-back line that affects how the wing lifts
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1
5.7
A brief time when part of the brain gets too little blood, causing sudden weakness or vision loss
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1
7.8
An action by soldiers to draw the enemy's attention away from the main battle
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A big military ship with a long flat deck that carries and launches fighter planes
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A U.S. military kit that turns a regular bomb dropped from a plane into a precise guided bomb
How Damaging
Surface Forms
Etymology
Attack comes from an old word meaning 'attach' or 'set on', and for disease or chemicals this image helps: they 'go at' and damage a part of the body or material, which is why we say they attack it.