An archaic or dialectal spelling of 'attack', used in older English texts to mean to assault or strike at something.
Variant spelling of 'attack', from Old French 'ataque' and Italian 'attaccare'. This older spelling reflects pronunciation patterns and was common before standardized spelling.
English spelling wasn't standardized until the 1700s-1800s, so the same word could be spelled a dozen different ways—'atake' is one of those fossil words showing how flexible spelling used to be!
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