hyökätä — meaning in English
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English meaning
- assault noun A sudden violent attack, whether physical or verbal.
- attack verb To use violent force against a person or place.
- charge noun An amount of money asked for a service or product.
- engage verb To hold someone's attention or interest.
- invade verb To enter a country or territory by force in order to take control of it.
- raid noun A sudden attack or surprise incursion, often by armed forces or police.
- rail noun A horizontal bar used as a support or barrier, or one of the metal bars that trains run on.
- swoop verb To dive or sweep downward suddenly through the air.
Senses
hyökätä is used for these senses in English:
- allonge To thrust with a sword; to lunge.
- assault (transitive) To attack, physically or figuratively; to assail.
- attack (transitive) To apply violent force to someone or something.
- attack (transitive) To begin to affect; to act upon injuriously or destructively; to begin to decompose or waste.
- charge (military, transitive, and, intransitive) To attack by moving forward quickly in a group.
- come at To attack (someone); to harass (someone); to challenge(someone) to a fight.
- go for (transitive) To try for, to attempt to reach.
- invade To attack; to infringe; to encroach on; to violate.
assault — full definition
- noun A sudden violent attack, whether physical or verbal.
- noun In law, an act that makes someone fear immediate physical harm, even without actual contact.
- verb To attack someone violently, physically or verbally.
attack — full definition
- verb To use violent force against a person or place.
- verb To criticize someone or something harshly in words.
- verb To begin dealing with a task or problem with energy and determination.
- noun A violent or aggressive act intended to harm.
- noun A sudden episode of illness or pain.