attack

attack
attack (v.) c.1600, from Fr. attaquer (16c.), from Florentine Italian attaccare (battaglia) "join (battle)," thus the word is a doublet of ATTACH (Cf. attach), which was used 15c.-17c. also in the sense now reserved to attack. Related: Attacked; attacking. The noun is 1660s, from the verb; Cf. M.E. attach "a seizure or attack" (of fever), late 14c.

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