Synonyms:
assaultive, attacking(a)
Meaning: disposed to attack
Usage examples
They're attacking one of the fords now!"
Hobbes would have it that man is naturally void of fear, and always intent upon attacking and fighting.
The plan was to accomplish the downfall of the Quicksand Terror without loss to the attacking party, if possible.
It was now nearly daybreak; and as the savages discovered the weakness of the attacking party, they resolved to charge, feeling sure of success.
He is continually attacking and throwing sarcasm at astrology, but it was the only thing for which people would pay him, and on it after a fashion he lived.
From various attacking positions its beak darts down into the water, but often without result, and it has to go farther afield; then at last it captures a little eel.
The Blueskins hesitated until a few got pricked and began to yell with terror, when the whole of the Boolooroo's attacking party turned and ran back to the gate, their Ruler reaching it first of all.
Hardly had the rector announced, "Here beginneth the forty-fourth verse of the sixteenth chapter of the book of the prophet Ezekiel," than a sort of relaxation took place in the mind I was attacking.
The waves are a great planing machine attacking the land, and the tides raise and lower this planing machine, so that its denuding tooth is applied, now twenty feet vertically above mean level, now twenty feet below.
I have political enemies, of course men, who, influenced by party feeling, are not above attacking methods and possibly my official reputation; but personal ones--wretches willing to stab me in my home-life and affections, that I can not believe.