under attack

1. 1.

   subjected to enemy attack or censure

   “an official under fire for mismanagement”

   Synonymsunder fire

   Similarvulnerable

Questions about under attack

What does under attack mean?

under attack means "subjected to enemy attack or censure".

What is another word for under attack?

Close synonyms include under fire. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is under attack a common word?

under attack is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.