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A violent onset or attack with physical means, as blows, weapons, etc.; an onslaught; the rush or charge of an attacking force; onset;
Noun
a threatened or attempted physical attack by someone who appears to be able to cause bodily harm if not stopped
Noun
the crime of forcing a woman to submit to sexual intercourse against her will
Noun
close fighting during the culmination of a military attack
Noun
thoroughbred that won the triple crown in 1946
Verb
attack in speech or writing; "The editors of the left-leaning paper attacked the new House Speaker"
Verb
attack someone physically or emotionally; "The mugger assaulted the woman"; "Nightmares assailed him regularly"
Verb
force (someone) to have sex against their will; "The woman was raped on her way home at night"
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.
Assault
The Spanish general prepared to renew the assault.
Unshaken bears the assault Of their most dreaded foe, the strong southwest.2.
Practically, however, the word assault is used to include the battery.
Assault
Insnared, assaulted, overcome, led bound.2.
Before the gates, the cries of babes newborn, . . . Assault his ears.
A violent onset or attack with physical means, as blows, weapons, etc.; an onslaught; the rush or charge of an attacking force; onset;
To make an assault upon, as by a sudden rush of armed men; to attack with unlawful or insulting physical violence or menaces.
Usage Examples
Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.
The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables.
I had the classic 40 meltdown. I did. It's embarrassing. It was pretty funny. But then I recovered. To me, it was like a second adolescence. Hormonally, my body was changing, my mind was changing, and so my relationship to myself and the world around me came to this assault of finiteness.
The perennial conviction that those who work hard and play by the rules will be rewarded with a more comfortable present and a stronger future for their children faces assault from just about every direction. That great enemy of democratic capitalism, economic inequality, is real and growing.
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Other Usage ExamplesDecades ago, women suffered through horrifying back-alley abortions. Or, they used dangerous methods when they had no other recourse. So when the Republican Party launched an all-out assault on women's health, pushing bills to limit access to vital services, we had to ask: Why is the GOP trying to send women back... to the back alley?
Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I think it's an assault on citizenship.
All movies assault the viewer in one way or another.
Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on democracy.
Since Hiroshima and the Holocaust, science no longer holds its pristine place as the highest moral authority. Instead, that role is taken by human rights. It follows that any assault on Jewish life - on Jews or Judaism or the Jewish state - must be cast in the language of human rights.
There's an assault on human sexuality, as Judge Scalia said, they've taken sides in the culture war and on top of that if we have a democracy, the democratic processes should be that we can elect representatives who will share our point of view and vote those things into law.
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