Citations:attack

noun: "An attempt to cause damage, injury to, or death of opponent or enemy."

 * 1719 — Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe:
 * Oct. 26.—I walked about the shore almost all day, to find out a place to fix my habitation, greatly concerned to secure myself from any attack in the night, either from wild beasts or men.



noun: "One of several specific maneuvers, skills, or special abilities that a character can use to inflict damage against opponents."








verb: "To apply violent force to someone or something."

 * 1719 — Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe:
 * These considerations really put me to a pause, and to a kind of a full stop; and I began by little and little to be off my design, and to conclude I had taken wrong measures in my resolution to attack the savages; and that it was not my business to meddle with them, unless they first attacked me; and this it was my business, if possible, to prevent: but that, if I were discovered and attacked by them, I knew my duty.
 * I fancied myself now like one of the ancient giants who were said to live in caves and holes in the rocks, where none could come at them; for I persuaded myself, while I was here, that if five hundred savages were to hunt me, they could never find me out—or if they did, they would not venture to attack me here.