Attack synonyms | Another word for attack

1. begin an assault

• Ambush
• Begin an assault
• Begin hostilities
• Blitz
• Bombard
• Charge
• Fire on/at
• Pounce
• Rush
• Shell
• Strafe
• Strike
• Storm

2. assault

• Aggress
• Ambush
• Assail
• Assault
• Batter
• Beat up on
• Beat up
• Beat
• 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
• Mug
• Paste
• Pitch into
• Pounce on
• Pound
• Pummel
• Rough up
• Sail into
• Set about
• Set upon
• Strike at
• Tear into
• Thrash
• Work over
• Light into

3. affect

• Affect
• Damage
• Have an effect on
• Infect
• Strike at
• Strike
• Take hold of
• Injure

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
• 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
• Vilify
• Reprehend

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
• See to
• Set about
• Set to work on
• Undertake
• Have a stab at

6. assault

• Act of aggression
• Assault
• Blitz
• Charge
• Drive
• Incursion
• Inroad
• Invasion
• Offensive
• Onslaught
• Push
• Raid
• Razzia
• Rush
• Sally
• Sortie
• Storming
• Strike
• Thrust
• Onset

7. criticism

• Admonishment
• Admonition
• Bashing
• Blast
• Broadside
• Caning
• Carpeting
• Censure
• Condemnation
• Criticism
• Denunciation
• Diatribe
• Dressing-down
• Earful
• Harangue
• Invective
• Knocking
• Polemic
• Rant
• Rap over the knuckles
• Rating
• Rebuke
• Reprimand
• Reproval
• Revilement
• Roasting
• Rocket
• Rollicking
• Slating
• Stricture
• Telling-off
• Ticking off
• Tirade
• Verbal onslaught
• Vilification
• Wigging
• Philippic

8. fit

• Bout
• Convulsion
• Dose
• Fit
• Flare-up
• Outburst
• Paroxysm
• Seizure
• Spasm
• Spell
• Access