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Assault

noun

1.

Close fighting during the culmination of a military attack.

2.

A threatened or attempted physical attack by someone who appears to be able to cause bodily harm if not stopped.

3.

Thoroughbred that won the triple crown in 1946.

4.

The crime of forcing a woman to submit to sexual intercourse against her will. Synonyms: rape, ravishment, violation.

verb

(past & past part. assaulted; pres. part. assaulting)

1.

Attack someone physically or emotionally. Synonyms: assail, attack, set on. "Nightmares assailed him regularly"

2.

Force (someone) to have sex against their will. Synonyms: dishonor, dishonour, outrage, rape, ravish, violate.

3.

Attack in speech or writing. Synonyms: assail, attack, lash out, round, snipe.

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"Assault" Quotes from Famous Books

... of drunkards were marshalled for a parade, marching twenty abreast, it would require four and one-half days, marching ten hours a day, for them to pass a given point. And these 295,000 drunks do not include the arrests for "disorderly conduct," "assault" and a dozen other offences which grow out of the licensed rum business. The total arrests for all causes in these cities was 915,167. Counting the moderate estimate of three-fourths of these as being the victims ...

— The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation • Carry A. Nation

... at his hands had he himself been a known offender. It was his character which gave him his influence both at home and abroad, both with friends and with foes, and could it have been successfully assailed, it would not have been left to two Jesuits in a foreign land to lead the assault after he was ...

— The Scottish Reformation - Its Epochs, Episodes, Leaders, and Distinctive Characteristics • Alexander F. Mitchell

... imbecility of mankind; he had the secret of life, that confounded dying man, and he made himself master of every moment of our existence. We grew desperate, and remained submissive. Emotional little Belfast was for ever on the verge of assault or on the verge of tears. One evening he confided to Archie:—"For a ha'penny I would knock his ugly black head off—the skulking dodger!" And the straightforward Archie pretended to be shocked! Such was the infernal spell which that casual St. Kitt's nigger had cast upon our ...

— The Nigger Of The "Narcissus" - A Tale Of The Forecastle • Joseph Conrad

... whose imagination had been developed somewhat beyond the elementary stage by his reading of romantic fiction, suggested luring Ford into the liquor room by the simple method of pretending an assault upon him by way of the storeroom window, which could be barred from without by heavy planks. Secure in his belief in Ford's friendship for him, Sandy even volunteered to slam the door shut upon Ford and lock it with the padlock ...

— The Uphill Climb • B. M. Bower

... General Foch's army at Fere-Champenoise. Five times they attacked the Chateau de Mondement, and five times they were driven back. Their officers were consulting as to the best thing to do; and the men surrounded the officers, begging them with tears in their eyes to lead them to the assault for the sixth time. For the sixth time the attack was sounded, and at the sixth ...

— Fighting France • Stephane Lauzanne

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