atakować
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French attaquer + -ować. By surface analysis, atak + -ować.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
atakować impf (perfective zaatakować)
- (transitive) to attack (to apply violent force to someone or something)
- Antonym: bronić
- (transitive, military) to attack (to carry out decisive military action to defeat the enemy)
- (transitive) to attack (to begin to affect; to act upon injuriously or destructively; to begin to decompose or waste)
- Hypernym: szkodzić
- (transitive) to attack (to aggressively challenge a person, idea, etc., with words)
- Synonym: napastować
- Hypernym: krytykować
- (transitive, sports) to attack (to try to gain an advantage during a sports competition)
- Antonym: bronić
- (transitive) to attack (to attempt to accomplish something that is an exceptional achievement or better than the achievements of others)
- (transitive) to attack (to persistently try to interest the recipient)
- (reflexive with się) to attack each other (to apply violent force to each other)
- (reflexive with się) to attack each other (to verbally abuse each other)
Conjugation edit
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Further reading edit
- atakować in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- atakować się in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- atakować in Polish dictionaries at PWN