Attack and Bound

attack

noun

Military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons. ()
- usage: "the attack began at dawn"
- synonyms: onslaught, onset, onrush
An offensive move in a sport or game.
- usage: "they won the game with a 10-hit attack in the 9th inning"
Intense adverse criticism.
- usage: "Clinton directed his fire at the Republican Party"; "the government has come under attack"; "don't give me any flak"
- synonyms: fire, flak, flack, blast
Ideas or actions intended to deal with a problem or situation.
- usage: "his approach to every problem is to draw up a list of pros and cons"; "an attack on inflation"; "his plan of attack was misguided"
- synonyms: approach, plan of attack
The act of attacking.
- usage: "attacks on women increased last year"; "they made an attempt on his life"
- synonyms: attempt
A decisive manner of beginning a musical tone or phrase.
- synonyms: tone-beginning
A sudden occurrence of an uncontrollable condition.
- usage: "an attack of diarrhea"
The onset of a corrosive or destructive process (as by a chemical agent. )
- usage: "the film was sensitive to attack by acids"; "open to attack by the elements"
Strong criticism.
- usage: "he published an unexpected attack on my work"

verb

Launch an attack or assault on; begin hostilities or start warfare with.
- usage: "Hitler attacked Poland on September 1, 1939 and started World War II"; "Serbian forces assailed Bosnian towns all week"
- synonyms: assail
Attack in speech or writing.
- usage: "The editors of the left-leaning paper attacked the new House Speaker"
- synonyms: round, assail, lash out, snipe, assault
Take the initiative and go on the offensive.
- usage: "The Serbs attacked the village at night"; "The visiting team started to attack"
- synonyms: aggress
Attack someone physically or emotionally.
- usage: "The mugger assaulted the woman"; "Nightmares assailed him regularly"
- synonyms: assail, assault, set on
Set to work upon; turn one's energies vigorously to a task.
- usage: "I attacked the problem as soon as I got out of bed"
Begin to injure.
- usage: "The cancer cells are attacking his liver"; "Rust is attacking the metal"

(n.) A setting to work upon some task, etc.
(v.t.) To begin to affect; to begin to act upon, injuriously or destructively; to begin to decompose or waste.
(n.) An assault upon one's feelings or reputation with unfriendly or bitter words.
(v.t.) 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.
(v.t.) To fall upon with force; to assail, as with force and arms; to assault.
(v.t.) To set to work upon, as upon a task or problem or some object of labor or investigation.
(n.) The beginning of corrosive, decomposing or destructive action, by a chemical agent.
(n.) An access of disease; a fit of sickness.
(n.) The act of attacking or falling on with force or violence; an onset; an assault; -- opposed to defense.
(v.i.) To make an onset or attack.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

bound

noun

A line determining the limits of an area.
- synonyms: boundary, edge
The line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something.
- synonyms: boundary, bounds
The greatest possible degree of something.
- usage: "what he did was beyond the bounds of acceptable behavior"; "to the limit of his ability"
- synonyms: limit, boundary
A light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards.
- synonyms: leap, leaping, spring, saltation, bounce

verb

Stick to firmly.
- usage: "Will this wallpaper adhere to the wall"
- synonyms: adhere, hold fast, bond, bind, stick, stick to
Create social or emotional ties.
- usage: "The grandparents want to bond with the child"
- synonyms: bind, tie, attach, bond
Make fast; tie or secure, with or as if with a rope.
- usage: "The Chinese would bind the feet of their women"
- synonyms: bind
Wrap around with something so as to cover or enclose.
- synonyms: bind, bandage
Secure with or as if with ropes.
- usage: "tie down the prisoners"; "tie up the old newspapers and bring them to the recycling shed"
- synonyms: tie down, tie up, bind, truss
Bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted.
- usage: "He's held by a contract"; "I'll hold you by your promise"
- synonyms: oblige, bind, hold, obligate
Provide with a binding.
- usage: "bind the books in leather"
- synonyms: bind
Fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord.
- usage: "They tied their victim to the chair"
- synonyms: tie, bind
Form a chemical bond with.
- usage: "The hydrogen binds the oxygen"
- synonyms: bind
Cause to be constipated.
- usage: "These foods tend to constipate you"
- synonyms: constipate, bind
Move forward by leaps and bounds.
- usage: "The horse bounded across the meadow"; "The child leapt across the puddle"; "Can you jump over the fence"
- synonyms: jump, leap, spring
Form the boundary of; be contiguous to.
- synonyms: border
Place limits on (extent or access. )
- usage: "restrict the use of this parking lot"; "limit the time you can spend with your friends"
- synonyms: restrict, restrain, trammel, limit, confine, throttle
Spring back; spring away from an impact.
- usage: "The rubber ball bounced"; "These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide"
- synonyms: bounce, resile, take a hop, spring, rebound, recoil, reverberate, ricochet

adjective

Confined by bonds.
- usage: "bound and gagged hostages"
Held with another element, substance or material in chemical or physical union.
Secured with a cover or binding; often used as a combining form.
- usage: "bound volumes"; "leather-bound volumes"
Usually followed by `to'. ( governed by fate)
- usage: "bound to happen"; "an old house destined to be demolished"; "he is destined to be famous"
- synonyms: destined
Covered or wrapped with a bandage.
- usage: "the bandaged wound on the back of his head"; "an injury bound in fresh gauze"
- synonyms: bandaged
Headed or intending to head in a certain direction; often used as a combining form as in `college-bound students'.
- usage: "children bound for school"; "a flight destined for New York"
- synonyms: destined
Bound by an oath.
- usage: "a bound official"
Bound by contract.
- synonyms: apprenticed, articled, indentured
Confined in the bowels.
- usage: "he is bound in the belly"

(p.p.) of Bind.
(imp.) of Bind.
(v.) Ready or intending to go; on the way toward; going; -- with to or for or with an adverb of motion; as, a ship is bound to Cadiz or for Cadiz.
(p.p.&a.) Constipated; costive.
(v.t.) To name the boundaries of; as, to bound France.
(n.) A leap; an elastic spring; a jump.
(p.p.&a.) Under legal or moral restraint or obligation.
(p.p.&a.) Resolved; as, I am bound to do it.
(v.i.) To move with a sudden spring or leap or with a succession of springs or leaps; as the beast bounded from his den; the herd bounded across the plain.
(n.) Spring from one foot to the other.
(n.) Rebound; as, the bound of a ball.
(p.p.&a.) Inclosed in a binding or cover; as, a bound volume.
(n.) The external or limiting line, either real or imaginary, of any object or space; that which limits or restrains or within which something is limited or restrained; limit; confine; extent; boundary.
(p.p.&a.) Constrained or compelled; destined; certain; -- followed by the infinitive; as, he is bound to succeed; he is bound to fail.
(p.p.&a.) Restrained by a hand, rope, chain, fetters or the like.
(v.t.) To make to bound or leap; as, to bound a horse.
(v.t.) To cause to rebound; to throw so that it will rebound; as, to bound a ball on the floor.
imp. & p. p. of Bind.
(v.t.) To limit; to terminate; to fix the furthest point of extension of; -- said of natural or of moral objects; to lie along or form, a boundary of; to inclose; to circumscribe; to restrain; to confine.
(v.i.) To rebound, as an elastic ball.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

(DoD, NATO) In land warfare, a single movement, usually from cover to cover, made by troops often under enemy fire.
(DoD) Distance covered in one movement by a unit that is advancing by bounds.

Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. 31 January 2011.

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