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Assault   /əsˈɔlt/   Listen
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



... suspense, like the shepherds who first heard that hymn, until the quaking ceased and it was ended. Then we took up again our holy way, looking at the shades, that lay on the ground already returned to their wonted plaint. No ignorance, if my memory err not in this, did ever with so great assault give me yearning for knowledge, I then seemed to have while pondering: nor by reason of our haste was I bold to ask; nor of myself could I see aught there; thus I went on ...
— Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" • John T. Slattery
... of course a good deal of lawlessness and a strong tendency to settle assault and battery cases in particular out of court. The officers of justice at times had to subdue criminals by open force. Andrew Jackson, who was District Attorney for the Western District, early acquired fame by the energy and success with which he put down any criminal who ...
— The Winning of the West, Volume Four - Louisiana and the Northwest, 1791-1807 • Theodore Roosevelt
... addressed his clergyman, it was in a tone of humble respect far different from his present frantic assault. ...
— Keziah Coffin • Joseph C. Lincoln
... out his hand for the note, when something hit him violently in the back. It was the magazine hurled by the burly Englishman, who followed up the assault by ...
— Septimus • William J. Locke
... the late owner, or the devil, I have not an idea. I can only tell you no one has been able to remain in it since Mr. Elmsdale's death, and if I attend a case there, of course I say, Get out of this at once. Then comes Miss Blake and threatens me with assault and battery—swears she will bring an action against me for libelling the place; declares I wish to drive her and her niece to the workhouse, and asserts I am in league with some one who wants to keep the house vacant, and I am sick of it. Get what doctor you choose, ...
— The Uninhabited House • Mrs. J. H. Riddell


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