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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/attacker/#m1)

2) (sport) A player whose job is to score goals or points. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/attacker/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/attacker/#x1)
- She managed to escape from her attacker. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/attacker/#x2)
- Our team's best attacker scored twice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/attacker/#x3)
- The shark is not usually an attacker of people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/attacker/#x4)
- Defenders try to stop the attackers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/attacker/#x5)
- Shout and run to safety if someone attacks you. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/attacker/#x6)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/146-shrek-s-dragon-real-dragons-and-lizards/5/)
- [Porcupines cannot shoot their quills; the barbed quills come out easily when touched and stick into the attacker.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/154-more-animal-myths-from-cartoons/7/)
- [Porcupines can't shoot their quills; the quills come loose easily when touched and stick into an attacker.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/8-wild-animals-and-tall-tales/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «attacker» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/attacker/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.