devastating attack

collocation in English

meaningsofdevastatingandattack

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devastating
adjective
uk
/ˈdev.ə.steɪ.tɪŋ/us
/ˈdev.ə.steɪ.t̬ɪŋ/
causing a lot of damage ...
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attack
noun
uk
/əˈtæk/us
/əˈtæk/
a violent act intended to hurt or damage someone ...
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(Definition ofdevastatingandattackfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This is an amusing and interesting speech, not adevastatingattack.
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This is adevastatingattackupon that principle.
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For all these reasons, it is particularly unfortunate that we face adevastatingattackon the structure of adult education.
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Any one of these things can be put into past perspective and subjected to ruthless anddevastatingattack, but it applies to them all.
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On valuation, once again, after having made a mostdevastatingattackwe have had no reply.
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We must have flexibility in employing those forces to meet the kind of suddendevastatingattackcharacteristic of modern war.
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The present possibilities of sudden anddevastatingattackby an aggressor which might paralyse the whole of the country were unknown.
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It may be said that he has made adevastatingattackupon it.
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I believe that it would be seen as adevastatingattackon the police service alone.
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Migraine, the subject of this debate, is one of those complaints which makes one want to creep away silently and hide until thedevastatingattackhas passed over.
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We have heard about the leaked document revealing that there could be anotherdevastatingattackon the coal industry.
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Any highly centralised energy system -- pipelines, nuclear plants, refineries -- invitedevastatingattack.
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In both the anime and manga, she can use to launch an extremely powerful anddevastatingattack.
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His quick action and the superiority of his squadron turned back what would surely have been adevastatingattackon his carrier group.
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And all this accompanied by a thorough, searching, anddevastatingattackon ancient and not-so-ancient philosophies, and by a provisional natural philosophy anticipating the results of the new philosophy?
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The allied defenders suffered a number of casualties as a result of an intense,devastatingattacklaunched by the enemy from well-concealed positions surrounding the camp.
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Soon the besieged crusaders were suffering from devastating attacks, famine and disease.
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While in battle, the character's kamui bar will build up and the player can release this stored power for devastating attacks which slowly evolve as the story progresses.
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George was weighing grim scenarios and ominous intelligence about potentially even more devastating attacks.
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