Attack
Attack verb - To take sudden, violent action against.
Cross over and attack are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Cross over" instead a verb "Attack".
Cross over
Attack and cross over are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Attack" instead a verb "Cross over".
Both terms in one sentence
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Randall then has an... ahem, "attack of indigestion", the effects of which cross over to Commander Overbeck's suit, prompting the above memorable exchange (which is no doubt familiar to most people from Real Life).
Source: Implausible Deniability - Synopsis: A cross over with Mass Effect 2: While on their way to battle the Greenskins, Captain Malleus of the Sons of Thunder and his command squad are hit by a shock attack gun and blasted all the way back to the early 3rd millenium.
Source: Fanfic Recs / Warhammer 40,000 -
Occasionally the punishments thus dispensed cross over into Laser-Guided Karma, such as in Scorpio's route when he strikes a corrupt businessman with a heart attack that causes the man's briefcase to open and scatter his ill-gotten money all over the street.
Source: Visual Novel / Star-Crossed Myth
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