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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

  1. noun A sudden violent attack, whether physical or verbal.
  2. noun In law, an act that makes someone fear immediate physical harm, even without actual contact.
  3. verb To attack someone violently, physically or verbally.

attack — full definition

  1. verb To use violent force against a person or place.
  2. verb To criticize someone or something harshly in words.
  3. verb To begin dealing with a task or problem with energy and determination.
  4. noun A violent or aggressive act intended to harm.
  5. noun A sudden episode of illness or pain.

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