(v. t.) To fall upon with force; to assail, as with force and arms; to assault.
(v. t.) To assail with unfriendly speech or writing; to begin a controversy with; to attempt to overthrow or bring into disrepute, by criticism or satire; to censure; as, to attack a man, or his opinions, in a pamphlet.
(v. t.) To set to work upon, as upon a task or problem, or some object of labor or investigation.
(v. t.) To begin to affect; to begin to act upon, injuriously or destructively; to begin to decompose or waste.
(v. i.) To make an onset or attack.
(n.) The act of attacking, or falling on with force or violence; an onset; an assault; -- opposed to defense.
(n.) An assault upon one's feelings or reputation with unfriendly or bitter words.
(n.) A setting to work upon some task, etc.
(n.) An access of disease; a fit of sickness.
(n.) The beginning of corrosive, decomposing, or destructive action, by a chemical agent.
Example Sentences:
(1) In attacking the motion to freeze the licence fee during today's Parliamentary debate the culture secretary, Andy Burnham, criticised the Tory leader.
(2) The major treatable risk factors in thromboembolic stroke are hypertension and transient ischemic attacks (TIA).
(3) In January, Paris taxi drivers attacked an Uber car transporting two passengers from Charles de Gaulle airport.
(4) The manufacturers, British Aerospace describe it as a "single-seat, radar equipped, lightweight, multi-role combat aircraft, providing comprehensive air defence and ground attack capability".
(5) She had three attacks of severe migrainous headache accompanied with nausea and vomiting within three weeks.
(6) 2.39pm BST The European Union called for a "thorough and immediate" investigation of the alleged chemical attack.
(7) Lactate-induced anxiety and symptom attacks without panic were seen more often in the groups with panic attacks, but a full-blown panic attack was provoked in only four subjects, all belonging to the groups with a history of panic attacks.
(8) A 45-year-old mother of four, named as Hediye Sen, was killed during clashes in Cizre, while a 70-year-old died of a heart attack during fighting in Silopi, according to hospital sources.
(9) A full-scale war is unlikely but there is clear concern in Seoul about the more realistic threat of a small-scale attack on the South Korean military or a group of islands near the countries' disputed maritime border in the Yellow Sea.
(10) This attack can take place during organogenesis, during early differentiation of neural anlagen after neural tube closure or during biochemical differentiation of the brain.
(11) For the second propositus, a woman presenting with abdominal and psychiatric manifestations, the age of onset was 38 years; the acute attack had no recognizable cause; she had mild skin lesions and initially was incorrectly diagnosed as intermittent acute porphyria; the diagnosis of variegate porphyria was only established at the age of 50 years.
(12) My thoughts are with all those who have lost loved ones or been injured in this barbaric attack.
(13) The charges against Harrison were filed just after two white men were accused of fatally shooting three black people in Tulsa in what prosecutors said were racially motivated attacks.
(14) Treatment with salbutamol inhalation had a beneficial effect on the duration of their adynamic attacks.
(15) Diabetic retinopathy (an index of microangiopathy) and absence of peripheral pulses, amputation, or history of myocardial infarction, stroke, or transient ischemic attacks (as evidence of macroangiopathy) caused surprisingly little increase in relative risk for cardiovascular death.
(16) The remain side have already targeted Johnson’s credibility in attacks that the Brexiters believe were orchestrated by Downing Street.
(17) I first saw them live at the location of the terror attack, Manchester Arena – then the MEN – aged 15, a teen at a gig with my friends, as many of the Grande’s fans were.
(18) Maguire's colleagues rushed to her side, some administering first aid while others held her attacker, witnesses said.
(19) But late last month, Amisom pushed them out of Afgoye, a strategic stronghold 30km from Mogadishu, where Amisom officials say the militants used to manufacture explosives used in attacks on the capital.
(20) Repeated transient ischemic attacks in the same territory with minimal lesions on arteriography and non-homogeneous plaque on duplex scan; 2.
Sic
Definition:
(a.) Such.
(adv.) Thus.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some embryos produced by sic-homozygous females differentiate the spitz phenotype, others develop normally or die early.
(2) Two reagents, starch-iodine complex (SIC) and a mixed pH indicator, containing bromocresol purple and BTB (2:1) used earlier for the PNC-based ELISA, were compared with BTB for utilization in the PNC-based ELISA.
(3) The SIC-Em relation is non-linear and reverses sign at about +15 mV.
(4) That cannot be right.” Fury, who was stripped of his IBF title on Tuesday night after signing up for a rematch with Klitschko, tweeted last week: “Hopefully I don’t win @BBCSPOTY as I’m not the best roll model [sic] in the world for the kids, give it to someone who would appreciate it”, but the BBC has no plans to remove him from the shortlist or make any special arrangements to avoid potential controversy in Belfast on 20 December.
(5) If they refuse to do so, make the least show of resistance, or attempt to run away from you, you will fire upon and compell [sic] them to surrender, breaking and destroying the Spears, Clubs, and Waddies of all those you take prisoner.
(6) It's pure ad hominem (in the classic sense of the logical fallacy): "who is "Cornell [ sic ] West" to think that anything he says should be even listened to by "national security professionals"?
(7) Crystallized chicken liver H4 lactatedehydrogenase with PCBM and DTNB, proved to have sic thiol groups per enzyme molecule.
(8) Based on our research results and recent published investigations, many topics, such as grain, grain boundary, interface film, grain boundary engineering, microcrack, microdomain, nanodomain, domain boundary, and phase transformation, etc., have been dealt with; and many materials, such as Si3N4, beta''-Al2O3, MgO, SiC, (Hg, Cd) Te, BNN, ZrO2, PLZT, CdSe, Ca10(PO4)6, (OH)2, etc., have been involved.
(9) Here's the HKEx statement: This new haircut shall be applied on a daily basis to determine the value of the US Treasuries [sic] allowed to be used as cover for the margin requirements of HKCC [Hong Kong Clearing Corporation] participants.
(10) His researchers, apparently seeking to understand this imbalance, visited 10 independent schools "with a strong track records [sic] of sporting excellence" and 35 state schools "where the picture was very mixed".
(11) In both survey populations all cancer groups had significantly elevated levels of SIC when compared to any of the control populations.
(12) The sale of Once Upon a Time in Shaolin was agreed upon in May,” RZA wrote, “well before Martin Skhreli’s [sic] business practices came to light.
(13) He stopped at a large rock and kept saying 'they are there, thy [sic] are there' and shooting.
(14) It said: "We decry this persecution of one of our own, one who commited [sic] no crime and is being targeted simply for his association, real or imagined, by overzealous feds who seek to cut off the head of an idea, a group which has no leader.
(15) "According to [the British national] a China National Petroleum Company (CNPC) security team was stopped in Basrah [sic] city by the Iraqi police in a 'clear attempt to disrupt and cause panic to the clients.'
(16) Manchester United will be offered £27m for his services (sic), but will only accept the bid if they switch back from a marketing machine to a football club.
(17) Although there were no concentration-related changes in body weight, clinical chemistry, or hematological data attributable to SiC, lung weights were increased in the high concentration exposure group at both euthanization times.
(18) He is understood to be Matthew Doyle, a partner at a south London-based talent and PR agency, who tweeted earlier in the day: “I confronted a Muslim women [sic] yesterday in croydon.
(19) They're still not very happy with what's happened … I think Wisbech really becomes [sic] a small Latvia or Lithuania, or something like that."
(20) The proton beam from an AN700 van de Graaff accelerator has been used to bombard solid targets of C, TiB2, SiC, SiN, Al and Au in the energy range 250-700 keV.