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
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a word derived from
attack.
Example Sentences
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The Netherlands East Indies, so far unattacked, declared war in the knowledge that they would be attacked sooner or later.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
It was thought that his powerful constitution was unattacked.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 561, August 11, 1832 by Various
One of the few men whom The Corsair left unattacked was Sören Kierkegaard, for whose literary and scholarly talents Goldschmidt had great respect.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 by Various
I shall merely add, that the ten medical men sent from France to Poland, for the purpose of studying the nature of cholera, have all remained unattacked by the disease.
