"attack" (euphem.)

[Jonathan Lighter]

OED surprisingly fails to notice this very frequent euphemistic sense:

  1932  Howard W. Comstock &  Allen C. Miller _Dr. X_ (film): Was the murdered woman..._attacked_?

  JL


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