| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. The act of attacking: aggression, assailment, assault, attack, attempt, offense, offensive, onrush, onset, onslaught. See ATTACK. 2. Something that has been discovered: ascertainment, discovery, find, finding. See TEACH. | | VERB: | 1. To evoke a usually strong mental or emotional response from: affect1, get (to), impress, move, touch. See TOUCH. 2. To bring great harm or suffering to: afflict, agonize, anguish, curse, excruciate, plague, rack, scourge, smite, torment, torture. See ATTACK, HELP. 3. To set upon with violent force: aggress, assail, assault, attack, beset, fall on or (upon), go at, have at, sail into, storm. Informal : light into, pitch into. See ATTACK. 4. To remove or invalidate by or as if by running a line through or wiping clean. Also used with out: annul, blot (out), cancel, cross (off or out), delete, efface, erase, expunge, obliterate, rub (out), scratch (out), undo, wipe (out), x (out). Law : vacate. See CONTINUE. 5. To deliver a powerful blow to suddenly and sharply: bash, catch, clout, hit, knock, pop1, slam, slog, slug3, smash, smite, sock, swat, thwack, whack, wham, whop. Informal : biff, bop, clip1, wallop. Slang : belt, conk, paste. Idioms: let someone have it, sock it to someone. See ATTACK, STRIKE. 6. To enter a person's mind: hit, occur. Idioms: cross one's mind. See HAPPEN. 7. To give forth or cause to give forth a clear, resonant sound: bong, chime, knell, peal, ring2, toll2. See SOUNDS. 8. To have a sudden overwhelming effect on: catch, seize, take. See ATTACK, OVER. 9. To grasp at (something) eagerly, forcibly, and abruptly with the jaws: catch, nip1, snap, snatch. See REACH. 10. To cease working in support of demands made upon an employer: walk out. Idioms: go on strike. See CONTINUE. | | PHRASAL VERB: | strike back To return like for like, especially to return an unfriendly or hostile action with a similar one: counter, hit back, reciprocate, retaliate, retort. See ATTACK, FORGIVENESS. strike down To cause to fall, as from a shot or blow: bring down, cut down, down, drop, fell1, flatten, floor, ground, knock down, level, prostrate, throw. Slang : deck1. Idioms: lay low. See RISE. strike out To proceed in a specified direction: bear, go, head, make, set out. See APPROACH.
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