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 |
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 |
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 |
ratbite fever bacterium Spirillum minus | a bacterium causing ratbite fever |
attack dog | a watchdog trained to attack on command |
yellow-fever mosquito Aedes aegypti | mosquito that transmits yellow fever and dengue |
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 |
warning of attack | a warning to national policy makers that an enemy intends to launch an attack in the near future |
fever | intense nervous anticipation, in a fever of resentment |
buck fever | nervous excitement of an inexperienced hunter |
gold fever | greed and the contagious excitement of a gold rush |
scare panic attack | a sudden attack of fear |
fever tree Acacia xanthophloea | African tree supposed to mark healthful regions |
blue gum fever tree Eucalyptus globulus | tall fast-growing timber tree with leaves containing a medicinal oil, young leaves are bluish |
fever tree Georgia bark bitter-bark Pinckneya pubens | ornamental shrub or small tree of swampy areas in southwestern United States having large pink or white sepals and yielding Georgia bark for treating fever |
fever tree | any of several trees having leaves or bark used to allay fever or thought to indicate regions free of fever |
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 |
fever pitch | a state of extreme excitement, the crowd was at fever pitch |
Argentine hemorrhagic fever | hemorrhagic fever with neurological signs, caused by the Junin virus |
blackwater fever | severe and often fatal malaria characterized by kidney damage resulting in dark urine |
jungle fever | severe form of malaria occurring in tropical regions |
Marseilles fever Kenya fever Indian tick fever boutonneuse fever | a disease (common in India and around the Mediterranean area) caused by a rickettsia that is transmitted to humans by a reddish brown tick (ixodid) that lives on dogs and other mammals |
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 |
scarlet fever scarlatina | an acute communicable disease (usually in children) characterized by fever and a red rash |
brucellosis undulant fever Malta fever Gibraltar fever Rock fever Mediterranean fever | infectious bacterial disease of human beings transmitted by contact with infected animals or infected meat or milk products, characterized by fever and headache |
dengue dengue fever dandy fever breakbone fever | an infectious disease of the tropics transmitted by mosquitoes and characterized by rash and aching head and joints |
oral herpes herpes labialis cold sore fever blister | caused by herpes simplex virus type (HSV-) |
infectious mononucleosis mononucleosis mono glandular fever kissing disease | an acute disease characterized by fever and swollen lymph nodes and an abnormal increase of mononuclear leucocytes or monocytes in the bloodstream, not highly contagious, some believe it can be transmitted by kissing |
Ebola hemorrhagic fever Ebola fever Ebola | a severe and often fatal disease in humans and nonhuman primates (monkeys and chimpanzees) caused by the Ebola virus, characterized by high fever and severe internal bleeding, can be spread from person to person, is largely limited to Africa |
Lassa fever | an acute contagious viral disease of central western Africa, characterized by fever and inflammation and muscular pains and difficulty swallowing, can be used as a bioweapon |
cerebrospinal meningitis epidemic meningitis brain fever cerebrospinal fever | meningitis caused by bacteria and often fatal |
paratyphoid paratyphoid fever | any of a variety of infectious intestinal diseases resembling typhoid fever |