Assaulting
[ə'sɔ:ltɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Assault
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Examples
- 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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