fierce attack

collocation in English

meaningsoffierceandattack

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fierce
adjective
uk
/fɪəs/us
/fɪrs/
physically violent ...
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attack
noun
uk
/əˈtæk/us
/əˈtæk/
a violent act intended to hurt or damage someone ...
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(Definition offierceandattackfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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What she has been doing is to make afierceattackupon the local authorities.
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How can one fail to regard this situation as afierceattackagainst someone who upsets the apple cart?
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Pointing out the shortcomings does not constitute afierceattack.
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Let it be noted that the journalists from the other newspapers who rang him up so swiftly thought that the article constituted afierceattackon him.
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In the latter engagement, the 21st acted as rear guard and bore the brunt of afierceattackbut held their position.
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Now that our army's morale is high, if we suddenly launch afierceattack, the troops will be disappointed.
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It is not the kind offierceattackthat it is being portrayed to be by the people who want to defuse it.
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The gangs didn't believe the couple and it turned into afierceattack.
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Repeatedly exposing himself to savage enemy fire, he led his men in afierceattackthat totally destroyed the enemy forces.
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But now he faces new dangers from a strange world of awesome proportions-and his decisions alone mean survival or death as afierceattackthreatens the colony...
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It was known for its fierce attacks on homeopathy, hydropathy, mesmerism, and other approaches considered "sectarian" and unreliable by the "regular" (allopathic) medical establishment.
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It is naturally open to fierce attacks.
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An estimated one hundred enemy fighters made repetitive and fierce attacks, trying to turn the 99th back.
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They maintained this natural fortress against many fierce attacks and during the whole of a winter.
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Every day they fought off several fierce attacks from the enemy, preventing him from breaking through to the tractor plant.
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Rylsky's apolitical poetry provoked fierce attacks from official critics.
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