Under Attack

Definition: Under Attack

Under Attack

Adjective

1. Subjected to enemy attack or censure; "an official under fire for mismanagement".

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Synonyms: Under Attack

Crosswords: Under Attack

Bonanza: Under Attack (1995)

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Books

• Clergy Killers: Guidance for Pastors and Congregations Under Attack (reference)

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Rare Calachortus found in Hells Canyon with habitat under attack from yellow starthistle in the Garden Creek Preserve in Idaho. Credit: Lawry.

Under attack by a Japanese seaplane, during the U.S. raid on Wake Island, 24 February 1942. Photographed from USS Salt Lake City (CA-25), one of whose 1.1" machine gun mounts is in the foreground. Note anti-aircraft shell bursts above Northampton and nearby bomb splash. Credit: NAVY.

Watercolor by Edward Tufnell, RN (Retired), depicting the ship under attack by German bombers, in 1941. Credit: NAVY.

Japanese Carrier Division Three under attack by Task Force 38 planes, 20 June 1944. The battleship in the lower center is either Haruna or Kongo. The carrier Chiyoda is at right. Photographed from a USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) plane. Credit: NAVY.

A Japanese battleship (at left--either Yamato or Musashi) and other warships maneuver while under attack by U.S. carrier planes in the Sibuyan Sea. Ship in lower left and the two at the extreme right are heavy cruisers. Credit: NAVY.

Japanese aircraft carrier Shoho under attack by U.S. Navy carrier aircraft in the late morning of 7 May 1942. A TBD "Devastator" is visible in the lower right center, and another plane can be seen in the top center. Photographed from a USS Yorktown (CV-5) torpedo plane. Credit: NAVY.

The Puerto Rican independence movement is under attack : we must build unity against repression! : join the Puerto Rico Solidarity Committee. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Health

In some immune deficiencies, the numbers of neutrophils may be reduced either because they are under attack or are not produced in normal numbers. (references)

Economic History

Rwanda

The RPF battalion stationed in Kigali under the Arusha accords came under attack immediately after the shooting down of the president's plane. (references)

Fiji

The United States and other allied countries maintained military installations in Fiji during the war, but Fiji itself never came under attack. (references)

Croatia

However, the government and the CNB have periodically come under attack by advisors to President Mesic who believe that the Croatian kuna is overvalued. (references)

Human Rights

Guatemala

COPREDEH, the President's own commission for human rights, came under attack from hard-liners within the Government opposed to the initiatives taken by the organization to advance a responsive and forward-looking human rights policy. (references)

Worker Rights

Guatemala

The police, claiming that the mob was out of control, refused to enter the factory to protect the workers under attack. (references)

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Expression using "under attack": be under attack. Additional references.

Chinese 

挨æ‰" (come under attack, get a thrashing, take a beating). (various references)

Pig Latin

erunday attackay.(various references)

Turkish

sözle saldırılmak (be under attack), eleştirilmek (be under attack). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: reductant, truncated.

-3 letters: actuated, aduncate, arcuated, attacked, attacker, reactant, reattack, truanted, truncate, uncrated, underact, untacked, untraced.

-4 letters: actuate, arcuate, attuned, aurated, cateran, caudate, centaur, cranked, curated, curtate, daunter, detract, durance, natured, nutated, tankard, taunted, taunter, teacart, tracked, traduce, tranced, trucked, trunked, tuatera, unacted, uncaked, uncrate, unraked, unrated, untread.

-5 letters: acuate, acuter, adnate, arcade, arcane.

+4 letters: counterattacked.