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Gibes vs Attacks - What's the difference?

gibes | attacks |

As verbs the difference between gibes and attacks

is that gibes is (gibe) while attacks is third-person singular simple present of to attack .

As a noun attacks is

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gibes

English

Verb

(head)
  • (gibe)

    • gibe

    English

    Alternative forms

    * gybe * jibe

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A facetious or insulting remark; a jeer or taunt.
  • * 1603 , , Hamlet , act 5, scene 1:
    • Hamlet : Alas, poor Yorick! . . . Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To perform a jibe (2, 3).
  • To agree.
    • That explanation doesn't gibe with the facts.
  • To cause to execute a gibe (2, 3).
  • (ambitransitive) To reproach with contemptuous words; to deride; to mock.
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • Draw the beasts as I describe them, / From their features, while I gibe them.
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • Fleer and gibe , and laugh and flout.

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    attacks

    English

    Noun

    (head)

    • Verb

    (head)
  • Third-person singular simple present of to attack .
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