attacker

/əˈtakə/

US pronunciation

American sound/əˈtakə/

əˈtakə

Syllables: 3 syllables
Stress: 2nd syllable stress
Vowel: Schwa vowel
Ending: Final r is pronounced in US English

ə - ˈtakə -> attacker

Myanmar meaning

(n) လက်ရောက်ကျူးလွန်သူ။ ဗလက္ကာရပြုသူ။

Full entry

attack /ǝ'tæk/ n

၁။ [C, U] ~ (on sb/ sth) ထိုးနှက်ခြင်း။ တိုက်ခိုက်ခြင်း။ စီးနင်းခြင်း။ launch/ make/ mount an attack on the enemy/ bridge/ town ❍ a sudden unprovoked attack ❍ a series of racial/ sex attacks ❍ the victim of a terrorist attack ❍ Our troops are now on the attack. ❍ The patrol came under attack from all sides. See also COUNTER-ATTACK
၂။ [C, U] ~ (on sb/ sth) ဝေဖန်ထိုးနှက်ခြင်း။ a scathing/ fierce/ powerful attack on the government's policies.
၃။ [C] ~ (on sth) ချေမှုန်း တိုက်ဖျက်ခြင်း။ launch an all-out attack on poverty/ unemployment/ smoking.
၄။ [C] ရုတ်တရက် ဝေဒနာ ကပ်ရောက်ခြင်း။ an attack of asthma/ flu/ hiccups/ nerves ❍ (fig ) I got an attack of the giggles. ရယ်ကြော ထသည်။ See also HEART ATTACK
၅။ [C usu sing ] (sport ) (ဘောလုံး၊ ဟော်ကီတွင်) တိုက်စစ်ကစားသူ။ England's attack has been weakened by the injury of certain key players. Compare DEFENCE ၃
v
၁။ တိုက်ခိုက်သည်။ စီးနင်းသည်။ They decided to attack at night. ❍ attack a neighbouring country ❍ A woman was attacked and robbed by a gang of youths.
၂။ ပျက်စီးစေသည်။ a disease that attacks the brain ❍ Rust attacks metals.
၃။ ဝေဖန်ထိုးနှက်သည်။ a newspaper article attacking the vice-president.
၄။ ကိုင်တွယ် ဖြေရှင်းသည်။ အပြတ်ဖြိုသည်။ The government is making no attempt to attack unemployment. ❍ They attacked their meal with gusto.
၅။ (sport ) (ဂိုးရရန်) ထိုးဖောက် ကစားသည်။ They kept attacking and finally won a penalty. ❍ good attacking football.
❏ attacker n လက်ရောက်ကျူးလွန်သူ။ ဗလက္ကာရပြုသူ။ a sex attacker.

More examples

It was shortly before midnight when the terrorists attacked.
[attack someone with something] : Two prison officers were brutally attacked with a knife.
The enemy attacked at dawn.
US jets attacked five air defence sites in the north.
Opponents attacked the government’s plan to increase road tax.
[attack someone/something for (doing) something] : Parliament has been attacked for failing to take action.
[attack something as something] : The deputy Prime Minister last night attacked the decision as foolish.
The virus attacks the body’s red blood cells.
The wood had been attacked by a fungus.
We need to attack the problem now before it gets worse.
She was just about to attack a plate of spaghetti when the phone rang.
They attacked with determination and defended well.

Synonyms

assault, harass, bother, show aggression, do violence to, molest, assail, hit, strike, beat, hurt, harm, damage, abuse, access, act of violence, advance, affect, aggress, aggression, ailment, ambush, argue, argument, assailing, assailment, assault physically, assault verbally, barrage, bash, bat, bean, belligerence, berate, beset, besiege, biff, blame, blast, blister, blitz, blitzkrieg, boff, bombard, boot, bop, bout, brain, breakdown, buckle down, bust, calumny, censure, charge, chop down, clip, clock, club, combat, combativeness, commencement of hostilities, condemnation, confront, confrontation, convulsion, cook, criticism, criticize, deal with, defilement, denigration, denunciation, dirty deed, disagree, disagreement, disease, dive into, dose, drive, encounter, encroachment, failure, fit, foray, illness, impugn, impugnment, incident, incursion, infect, infiltrate, initiative, inroad, intervention, intrusion, invade, invasion, irruption, jump, jump down one's throat, jump on one's case, kick, knock block off, knock cold, knock for a loop, larrup, lay into, lay siege to, libel, light into, malign, mug, mugging, occur, occurrence, offense, offensive, onrush, onset, onslaught, outbreak, overwhelm, paroxysm, physical assault, pile in, plunge into, pounce on, pounce upon, pugnacity, punch, push, raid, rape, refute, relapse, reprove, revile, rush, seizure, set to, set upon, shoot down, skirmish, slander, slog, soak, spasm, spell, stab, start in, start in on, start on, storm, storming, stretch, strike down, stroke, tackle, take on, take the offensive

Antonyms

aid, approval, approve, assist, be lazy, commend, commendation, compliment, decrease, defend, defense, endorse, flight, guard, health, help, leave alone, lose, praise, protect, protection, pull, reprisal, resist, resistance, retreat, sanction, shelter, shield, slough off, submission, submit, support, surrender, sustain, sustenance, withstand