Attacker

Definition

attack /ǝ'tæk/ n ၁။ [C, U] ~ (on sb/ sth) ထိုးႏွက္ျခင္း။ တိုက္ခိုက္ျခင္း။ စီးနင္းျခင္း။ 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) ေဝဖန္ထိုးႏွက္ျခင္း။ a scathing/ fierce/ powerful attack on the government's policies. ၃။ [C] ~ (on sth) ေခ်မႈန္း တိုက္ဖ်က္ျခင္း။ launch an all-out attack on poverty/ unemployment/ smoking. ၄။ [C] ႐ုတ္တရက္ ေဝဒနာ ကပ္ေရာက္ျခင္း။ an attack of asthma/ flu/ hiccups/ nerves ❍ ( fig ) I got an attack of the giggles. ရယ္ေၾကာ ထသည္။ See also HEART ATTACK ၅။ [C usu sing ] ( sport ) (ေဘာလံုး၊ ေဟာ္ကီတြင္) တိုက္စစ္ကစားသူ။ England's attack has been weakened by the injury of certain key players. Compare DEFENCE ၃ v ၁။ တိုက္ခိုက္သည္။ စီးနင္းသည္။ They decided to attack at night. ❍ attack a neighbouring country ❍ A woman was attacked and robbed by a gang of youths. ၂။ ပ်က္စီးေစသည္။ a disease that attacks the brain ❍ Rust attacks metals. ၃။ ေဝဖန္ထိုးႏွက္သည္။ a newspaper article attacking the vice-president. ၄။ ကိုင္တြယ္ ေျဖရွင္းသည္။ အျပတ္ၿဖိဳသည္။ The government is making no attempt to attack unemployment. ❍ They attacked their meal with gusto. ၅။ ( sport ) (ဂိုးရရန္) ထိုးေဖာက္ ကစားသည္။ They kept attacking and finally won a penalty. ❍ good attacking football. ❏ attacker n လက္ေရာက္က်ဴးလြန္သူ။ ဗလကၠာရျပဳသူ။ a sex attacker.

Examples

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