Attack synonyms

216 synonyms for attack such as dose, ambush, aggress, affect, abuse, address, act of aggression, admonishment, bout, and convulsion. Attack is a verb, and its antonyms are defend and protect.

Another word for attack

1. begin an assault

Ambush, begin an assault, begin hostilities, blitz, bombard, charge, fire on/at, pounce, rush, shell, storm, strafe, and strike.

2. assault

Aggress, ambush, assail, assault, batter, beat, beat up, beat up on, do over, duff someone up, fall upon, get stuck into, have a go at, jump, knock about, knock around, lace into, lash out at, lay into, let fly at, let someone have it, light into, mug, paste, pitch into, pounce on, pound, pummel, rough up, sail into, set about, set upon, strike at, tear into, thrash, and work over.

3. affect

Affect, damage, have an effect on, infect, injure, strike, strike at, and take hold of.

4. criticize

Abuse, admonish, bag, bash, bawl out, berate, blame, blast, cane, carpet, castigate, censure, chastise, chew out, condemn, criticize, crucify, cut up, dress down, excoriate, find fault with, fulminate against, give someone a bad press, give someone a roasting, give someone a rocket, give someone a rollicking, give someone hell, hammer, harangue, haul over the coals, have a go at, impugn, knock, lambast, lay into, monster, objurgate, pillory, pull apart, pummel, rap over the knuckles, rate, ream out, rebuke, remonstrate with, reprehend, reprimand, reproach, reprove, revile, roast, rollick, rubbish, sail into, savage, slag off, slam, slash, slate, take to pieces, take to task, tear a strip off someone, tear into, tear someone off a strip, and vilify.

5. attend to

Address, apply oneself to, attend to, buckle down to, concentrate on, confront, deal with, direct one's attention to, embark on, focus on, get cracking on, get started on, get stuck into, get to work on, get weaving on, go to work on, grapple with, have a crack at, have a go at, have a shot at, have a stab at, see to, set about, set to work on, and undertake.

6. assault

Act of aggression, assault, blitz, charge, drive, incursion, inroad, invasion, offensive, onset, onslaught, push, raid, razzia, rush, sally, sortie, storming, strike, and thrust.

7. criticism

Admonishment, admonition, bashing, blast, broadside, caning, carpeting, censure, condemnation, criticism, denunciation, diatribe, dressing-down, earful, harangue, invective, knocking, philippic, polemic, rant, rap over the knuckles, rating, rebuke, reprimand, reproval, revilement, roasting, rocket, rollicking, slating, stricture, telling-off, ticking off, tirade, verbal onslaught, vilification, and wigging.

8. fit

Access, bout, convulsion, dose, fit, flare-up, outburst, paroxysm, seizure, spasm, and spell.

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