attack
verb (used with object)
to set upon in a forceful, violent, hostile, or aggressive way, with or without a weapon; begin fighting with.
unattacked
-
a word derived from
attack.
Example Sentences
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Massachusetts has taken the curious course of repealing her law forbidding the manufacture, transportation or importation of liquor, while leaving unattacked her law forbidding the sale of liquor.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Netherlands East Indies, so far unattacked, declared war in the knowledge that they would be attacked sooner or later.
From Time Magazine Archive
They will leave the castle of Palliano unattacked.
From Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance) by Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Williams) Champney
The castle of Aboukir had been left unattacked as the army moved forward, but was now besieged and surrendered on the eighteenth.
From At Aboukir and Acre A Story of Napoleon's Invasion of Egypt by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
We cannot be always Medes and Persians, madam, to resist every temptation and keep unbroken every law, though you, sitting in your cushioned chair, in unattacked tranquillity, can tell us easily enough we should be.
From Beatrice Boville and Other Stories by Ouida
