2. Verb. Third-person singular simple present of ''to attack''. ¹
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Definition of Attacks
1. attack [v] - See also: attack
Lexicographical Neighbors of Attacks
Literary usage of Attacks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Medical Clinics of North America by Richard J. Havel, K. Patrick Ober (1922)
"The mechanism which gives rise to such attacks is in most instances a rapid and
... Sometimes these measures seem to lessen the incidence of attacks. ..."
2. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1901)
"Second attacks are common. Of the 136 patients, 33 are known to have had two or
... F. Plehn states that the mortality is greatest in the first attacks. ..."
3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1906)
"As to time of attack, idiopathic epilepsy may occur at night, tic and hysterical
attacks never. Reflex epilepsy 'may occur at night, but there must be for ..."
4. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1905)
"As to- time of attack, idiopathic epilepsy may occur at night, tic and hysterical
attacks never. Reflex epilepsy may occur at night, but there must be for ..."
5. The Lancet (1898)
"Three attacks have since occurred at irregular intervals. ... Whatever the true
pathology of these attacks, the later history of two of them may be some ..."
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