Assault
[ə'sɔːlt;ə'sɒlt] or [ə'sɔlt]
Definition
(noun.) a threatened or attempted physical attack by someone who appears to be able to cause bodily harm if not stopped.
(noun.) close fighting during the culmination of a military attack.
(noun.) thoroughbred that won the triple crown in 1946.
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Definition
(n.) A violent onset or attack with physical means, as blows, weapons, etc.; an onslaught; the rush or charge of an attacking force; onset; as, to make assault upon a man, a house, or a town.
(n.) A violent onset or attack with moral weapons, as words, arguments, appeals, and the like; as, to make an assault on the prerogatives of a prince, or on the constitution of a government.
(n.) An apparently violent attempt, or willful offer with force or violence, to do hurt to another; an attempt or offer to beat another, accompanied by a degree of violence, but without touching his person, as by lifting the fist, or a cane, in a threatening manner, or by striking at him, and missing him. If the blow aimed takes effect, it is a battery.
(n.) To make an assault upon, as by a sudden rush of armed men; to attack with unlawful or insulting physical violence or menaces.
(n.) To attack with moral means, or with a view of producing moral effects; to attack by words, arguments, or unfriendly measures; to assail; as, to assault a reputation or an administration.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Attack, onset, onslaught, aggression, invasion, charge, thrust.[2]. Storming, storm.
v. a. Assail, attack, charge, invade, STORM, fall upon, fly at, bear down upon, make aggression on.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Onset, attack, aggression, onslaught
ANT:Defense, resistance, repulsion, retaliation, undermining, sapping, stratagem
Typist: Terrence
Definition
n. a sudden attack: a storming as of a town: (Eng. law) unlawful attempt to apply force to the person of another—when force is actually applied the act amounts to battery: an attack of any sort by arguments appeals &c.—v.t. to make an assault or attack upon: (law) to make an assault.—n. Assault′er.—Assault at arms a display of attack and defence in fencing.
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Examples
- To relieve them, I ordered a renewal of the assault. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- HER assault was long since over and beaten back. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The parts being thus distributed to the leaders, they commenced the first assault, of which the reader has already heard the issue. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- I have always regretted that the last assault at Cold Harbor was ever made. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Appearances did not justify an assault where we were. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- General Wright's corps had been designated to make this assault, which I intended to order as soon as information reached me of Sheridan's success. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- We thought it had now become necessary to carry them by assault. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Before the arrival of Wright the enemy had made two assaults on Sheridan, both of which were repulsed with heavy loss to the enemy. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- These assaults were continued to the middle of the afternoon, and resumed once or twice still later in the day. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Lee brought additional troops and artillery against Parke even after this was done, and made several assaults with very heavy losses. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I concluded, therefore to make no more assaults, and a little after twelve directed in the following letter that all offensive action should cease. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The latter made two assaults, both of which failed, and he had to fall back a few hundred yards. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Logan intrenched himself hastily, and by that means was enabled to resist all assaults and inflict a great deal of damage upon the enemy. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The Confederate assaults were made with such a disregard of losses on their own side that our line of tents soon fell into their hands. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- During the day Meade assaulted and carried one more redan to his right and two to his left. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He assaulted at once, but was repulsed. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Thence a force marched direct on Columbus, and another on West Point, both of which places were assaulted and captured on the 16th. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He put on a bold face, however, and assaulted with some loss, but was not assaulted in return. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I must reach the Temple of Issus secretly before the forces under Tars Tarkas assaulted at dawn. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- You had assaulted the barracks? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I had no doubt that the gang of roughs who assaulted me had carried off both my hat and the bird. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- The time agreed upon for the assault was the middle of the afternoon, and Ames who commanded the assaulting column moved at 3. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Richmond was fortified and intrenched so perfectly that one man inside to defend was more than equal to five outside besieging or assaulting. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- No more barricades of flagstones--no more assaulting his Majesty's troops with cobbles. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Thou never heardest me breathe a thought of assaulting him alone, and in a foreSt. Thou art no good knight if thou dost scruple at it, said Waldemar. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Two assaulting columns, two hundred and fifty men each, composed of volunteers for the occasion, were formed. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Upton with his assaulting party pushed forward and crossed the enemy's intrenchments. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Otherwise he would have had people attacking him at his flanks and at his rear while he was assaulting the barracks of the _guardia civil_. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
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