Attack and Kill

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.

noun

• The act of terminating a life.
  • synonyms: killing, putting to death
• The destruction of an enemy plane or ship or tank or missile.
  • usage: "the pilot reported two kills during the mission"

verb

• Cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly.
  • usage: "This man killed several people when he tried to rob a bank"; "The farmer killed a pig for the holidays"
• Thwart the passage of.
  • usage: "kill a motion"; "he shot down the student's proposal"
  • synonyms: shoot down, defeat, vote down, vote out
• End or extinguish by forceful means.
  • usage: "Stamp out poverty"
  • synonyms: stamp out
• Be fatal.
  • usage: "cigarettes kill"; "drunken driving kills"
• Be the source of great pain for.
  • usage: "These new shoes are killing me"
• Overwhelm with hilarity, pleasure, or admiration.
  • usage: "The comedian was so funny, he was killing me"
• Hit with so much force as to make a return impossible, in racket games.
  • usage: "She killed the ball"
• Hit with great force.
  • usage: "He killed the ball"
• Deprive of life.
  • usage: "AIDS has killed thousands in Africa"
• Cause the death of, without intention.
  • usage: "She was killed in the collision of three cars"
• Drink down entirely.
  • usage: "He downed three martinis before dinner"; "She killed a bottle of brandy that night"; "They popped a few beer after work"
  • synonyms: toss off, pop, bolt down, belt down, pour down, down, drink down
• Mark for deletion, rub off, or erase.
  • usage: "kill these lines in the President's speech"
  • synonyms: obliterate, wipe out
• Tire out completely.
  • usage: "The daily stress of her work is killing her"
• Cause to cease operating.
  • usage: "kill the engine"
• Destroy a vitally essential quality of or in.
  • usage: "Eating artichokes kills the taste of all other foods"

• (v.t.) To cause to cease; to quell; to calm; to still; as, in seamen's language, a shower of rain kills the wind.
• (n.) A kiln.
• (v.t.) To destroy the effect of; to counteract; to neutralize; as, alkali kills acid.
• (v.t.) To destroy; to ruin; as, to kill one's chances; to kill the sale of a book.
• (n.) A channel or arm of the sea; a river; a stream; as, the channel between Staten Island and Bergen Neck is the Kill van Kull or the Kills; -- used also in composition; as, Schuylkill, Catskill, etc.
• (v.t.) To deprive of life, animal or vegetable, in any manner or by any means; to render inanimate; to put to death; to slay.
• (n.) The act of killing.
• (n.) An animal killed in the hunt, as by a beast of prey.