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cyberattacking

cyberattacking is the present participle and gerund of cyberattack.

Meaning of cyberattack

Verb

cyberattack (third-person singular simple present cyberattacks, present participle cyberattacking, simple past and past participle cyberattacked)

  1. To launch a cyberattack.
    • A study by security company Riptech found that in the six months after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, energy companies were cyberattacked at twice the rate of other industries surveyed.2003 August 19, Kevin Maney, Michelle Kessler, “Blackout spurs cyberattack worry”, in USA Today

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Questions about cyberattacking

What is cyberattacking the present participle and gerund of?
Cyberattacking is the present participle and gerund of cyberattack.

Words near cyberattacking in the dictionary

  1. cyberati
  2. cyberattack
  3. cyberattacked
  4. cyberattacker
  5. cyberattackers
  6. cyberattacking
  7. cyberattacks
  8. cyberauction
  9. cyberauctions
  10. cyberaudience
  11. cyberaudiences

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cyberattacking (page history and authors); cyberattack (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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