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unprovoked attack

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meanings of unprovokedand attack


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unprovoked
adjective
uk /ˌʌn.prəˈvəʊkt/ us /ˌʌn.prəˈvoʊkt/
If an unpleasant action or remark is unprovoked, it has not been caused by anything and is ...
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attack
noun
uk /əˈtæk/ us /əˈtæk/
a violent act intended to hurt or damage someone ...
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Examples of unprovoked attack


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It was a completely unprovokedattack and the child and school staff had no way of knowing that the animal would enter the school.
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It was an unprovokedattack, which we must condemn.
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We read of "unprovokedattack and aggression"and"flagrant breaches of treaty," and then all the necessary machinery will come into operation when these incidents occur.
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We are fighting for our lives and for everything that we possess, in view of the unprovokedattack which has been made upon us.
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Why should they have any immunity when they launch an unprovokedattack on the sovereign territory of a neighbouring country?
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Who is going to interpret what is an unprovokedattack?
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An unprovokedattack by an aggressive foe is one of those cries which go up in every war.
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When staff attempted to separate the fighting prisoners, seven other prisoners in the vicinity became involved in an unprovokedattack on the prison staff.
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No war was ever caused by the unprovokedattack of any aggressive power.
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The origin of the crisis was a flagrant and unprovokedattack.
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Before the war we were brought up in a world where aggression was always regarded as something offensive and objectionable; we associated it with an unprovokedattack.
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Really this is a most unprovokedattack.
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He complained both that he had been the victim of an unprovokedattack by the officers in the stripped cell and that he had been improperly medicated without his consent.
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It appeared to be an unprovokedattack.
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The first known use dates back to 1611, in the sense of an unprovokedattack.
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Witnesses said that none of the men were armed and that it was an unprovokedattack.
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He does not show viciousness by unwarranted or unprovokedattack.
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In 1999 his right wrist was broken in what he claimed was an hour-long, unprovokedattack by staff.
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One version says the raid was an unprovokedattack to provoke war.
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Human exposure through biting incidents, especially unprovoked attacks, should be treated immediately with rabies post-exposure treatment and the bat, where possible, retained for laboratory analysis.
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