| suicide pill | a poison pill with potentially catastrophic implications for the company it is intended to protect |
| assassination | murder of a public figure by surprise attack |
suicide
self-destruction
self-annihilation | the act of killing yourself, it is a crime to commit suicide |
| assisted suicide | suicide of a terminally ill person that involves an assistant who serves to make dying as painless and dignified as possible |
| physician-assisted suicide | assisted suicide where the assistant is a physician |
| attack tone-beginning | a decisive manner of beginning a musical tone or phrase |
| attack | an offensive move in a sport or game, they won the game with a -hit attack in the th inning |
suicide squeeze play
suicide squeeze | the runner on third base starts home as the pitcher delivers the ball |
suicide mission
martyr operation
sacrifice operation | killing or injuring others while annihilating yourself, usually accomplished with a bomb |
| attack attempt | the act of attacking, attacks on women increased last year, they made an attempt on his life |
| approach attack plan of attack | ideas or actions intended to deal with a problem or situation, his approach to every problem is to draw up a list of pros and cons, an attack on inflation, his plan of attack was misguided |
biological warfare
BW
biological attack
biologic attack
bioattack | the use of bacteria or viruses or toxins to destroy men and animals or food |
attack
onslaught
onset onrush | (military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons), the attack began at dawn |
air raid
air attack | an attack by armed planes on a surface target |
| ground attack | an attack by ground troops |
banzai attack
banzai charge | a mass attack of troops without concern for casualties, originated by Japanese who accompanied it with yells of `banzai' |
| diversion diversionary attack | an attack calculated to draw enemy defense away from the point of the principal attack |
preventive strike
preventive attack | a strike that is carried out in order to deter expected aggression by hostile forces |
bombing
bombardment | an attack by dropping bombs |
| bombing run | that part of the flight that begins with the approach to the target, includes target acquisition and ends with the release of the bombs |
carpet bombing
area bombing
saturation bombing | an extensive and systematic bombing intended to devastate a large target |
| dive-bombing | a bombing run in which the bomber releases the bomb while flying straight toward the target |
loft bombing
toss bombing | a bombing run in which the bomber approaches the target at a low altitude and pulls up just before releasing the bomb |
| over-the-shoulder bombing | a special case of loft bombing in which the bomb is released past the vertical so it is tossed back to the target |
| bombing | the use of bombs for sabotage, a tactic frequently used by terrorists |
| suicide bombing | a terrorist bombing carried out by someone who does not hope to survive it |
| attack | strong criticism, he published an unexpected attack on my work |
surprise attack
coup de main | an attack without warning |
| terrorist attack | a surprise attack involving the deliberate use of violence against civilians in the hope of attaining political or religious aims |
| attack dog | a watchdog trained to attack on command |
aircraft carrier
carrier flattop
attack aircraft carrier | a large warship that carries planes and has a long flat deck for takeoffs and landings |
| attack submarine | a military submarine designed and armed to attack enemy shipping |
fighter
fighter aircraft
attack aircraft | a high-speed military or naval airplane designed to destroy enemy aircraft in the air |
Joint Direct Attack Munition
JDAM | a pinpoint bomb guidance device that can be strapped to a gravity bomb thus converting dumb bombs into smart bombs |
fire
attack
flak
flack
blast | intense adverse criticism, Clinton directed his fire at the Republican Party, the government has come under attack, don't give me any flak |
character assassination
assassination blackwash | an attack intended to ruin someone's reputation |
| suicide pact | an agreement by two or more people to commit suicide together at a given place and time, the two lovers killed themselves in a suicide pact |
| warning of attack | a warning to national policy makers that an enemy intends to launch an attack in the near future |
scare
panic attack | a sudden attack of fear |
suicide
felo-de-se | a person who kills himself intentionally |
| suicide bomber | a terrorist who blows himself up in order to kill or injure other people |
| attack | the onset of a corrosive or destructive process (as by a chemical agent), the film was sensitive to attack by acids, open to attack by the elements |
| angle of attack | the acute angle between the direction of the undisturbed relative wind and the chord of an airfoil |
| attack | a sudden occurrence of an uncontrollable condition, an attack of diarrhea |
| anxiety attack | a sudden acute episode of intense anxiety and feelings of panic |
| heart attack | a sudden severe instance of abnormal heart function |
asthma
asthma attack
bronchial asthma | respiratory disorder characterized by wheezing, usually of allergic origin |
transient ischemic attack
TIA | brief episode in which the brain gets insufficient blood supply, symptoms depend on the site of the blockage |
| attack | begin to injure, The cancer cells are attacking his liver, Rust is attacking the metal |
| attack | set to work upon, turn one's energies vigorously to a task, I attacked the problem as soon as I got out of bed |