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have at

have at verb: to attack; to engage in combat with.

Verb

have at (third-person singular simple present has at, present participle having at, simple past and past participle had at)

  1. (archaic, idiomatic, transitive) To attack; to engage in combat with.
    • The Prince of Venosa was in their midst, shouting: "Have at the traitor! Kill! Kill!"1909, Anatole France (Alfred Allinson, translator), The Well of Saint Clare, ch. 10
    • ‘Now will I have at thee as a base kern and niddering,’ roared the knight.1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 57
  2. (figuratively, transitive) To take on; to begin dealing with.
    • A huge dish of food was served, and we had at it.
    Synonyms:
    set to

Interjection

  1. (informal) Go ahead.

have at meaning in Bengali

have at in Bengali

আক্রমণ করা, যুদ্ধে লিপ্ত হওয়া, হাতে নেওয়া, মোকাবিলা শুরু করা, চালিয়ে যাও

Synonyms of have at

Forms of have at

third-person singular presenthas at
present participlehaving at
past participlehad at
pasthad at

Questions about have at

What does have at mean?
Have at means to attack; to engage in combat with.
What is have at in Bengali?
Have at in Bengali is আক্রমণ করা, যুদ্ধে লিপ্ত হওয়া, হাতে নেওয়া. See Have at meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is have at?
Have at can be a verb or an interjection.
What is the past tense of have at?
The past tense of have at is had at.

Words near have at in the dictionary

  1. have an in
  2. have another thing coming
  3. have another think
  4. have another think coming
  5. have another thought coming
  6. have at
  7. have at you
  8. have bats in one's belfry
  9. have been around
  10. have been around the block
  11. have been in the wars

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Adapted from Wiktionary: have at (page history and authors); have at (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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