under attack

being acted against physically or with words She said cuts in spending put education in America under attack.

Related vocabulary: under fire

Etymology: based on the literal meaning of under attack (having physical force used against you)

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Hamon	-	Medieval English
Evgenia	yev-GYE-nee-yah (Russian), eev-GYE-nee-yah (Russian)	Greek, Russian, Bulgarian
Mercer	['mə:sə]
Sanjay	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Odia, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil, Nepali
Ryszard	RI-shahrt	Polish
MatÉO	-	French