attacker

«attacker» in Mova's school dictionary: A person or animal that attacks someone — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (an attacker, attackers)

meaning for a pupil

1) A person or animal that attacks someone. tree →

2) (sport) A player whose job is to score goals or points. tree →

sense in the lessons

In news and safety: the attacker ran off; tell police what the attacker looked like. In sport: forwards are attackers. Phrases: the attacker fled, fight off an attacker, star attacker.

examples

• The police are looking for the attacker. tree →
• She managed to escape from her attacker. tree →
• Our team's best attacker scored twice. tree →
• The shark is not usually an attacker of people. tree →
• Defenders try to stop the attackers. tree →
• Shout and run to safety if someone attacks you. tree →

note

Opposite in sport: defender. From the verb attack (attack, attacks, attacked). Spelling: double t, -ck-.

In the corpora

• No real animal breathes fire; the bombardier beetle sprays a nearly boiling chemical mix from a tough chamber at attackers.
• Porcupines cannot shoot their quills; the barbed quills come out easily when touched and stick into the attacker.
• Porcupines can't shoot their quills; the quills come loose easily when touched and stick into an attacker.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «attacker» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.