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Verb
/əˈsôlt/,
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assaults, 3rd person singular present; assaulting, present participle; assaulted, past participle; assaulted, past tense;
  1. Make a physical attack on
    • - he pleaded guilty to assaulting a police officer
    • - she was sexually assaulted as a child
  2. Attack or bombard (someone or the senses) with something undesirable or unpleasant
    • - her right ear was assaulted with a tide of music
  3. Carry out a military attack or raid on (an enemy position)
    • - they left their strong position to assault the hill
  4. Rape

Noun
  1. A physical attack
    • - his imprisonment for an assault on the film director
    • - sexual assaults
  2. An act, criminal or tortious, that threatens physical harm to a person, whether or not actual harm is done
    • - he appeared in court charged with assault
  3. A military attack or raid on an enemy position
    • - troops began an assault on the city
    • - an assault boat
  4. A strong verbal attack
    • - the assault on the party's tax policies
  5. A concerted attempt to do something demanding
    • - a winter assault on Mt. Everest
  1. assail: attack someone physically or emotionally; "The mugger assaulted the woman"; "Nightmares assailed him regularly"
  2. close fighting during the culmination of a military attack
  3. a threatened or attempted physical attack by someone who appears to be able to cause bodily harm if not stopped
  4. rape: force (someone) to have sex against their will; "The woman was raped on her way home at night"
  5. attack: attack in speech or writing; "The editors of the left-leaning paper attacked the new House Speaker"
  6. thoroughbred that won the triple crown in 1946
  7. Assault is a crime of violence against another person. In some jurisdictions, including Australia and New Zealand, as well as the USA, assault refers to an act that causes another to apprehend an immediate harmful contact, whereas the actual contact itself is called "battery. ...
  8. Assault is a shoot 'em up video game released in 1983, in the United States, by Bomb for the Atari 2600.
  9. Assault is a multi-directional shooter arcade game, released by Namco in 1988.
  10. Assault is a 1971 British thriller film directed by Sidney Hayers and starring Suzy Kendall, Frank Finlay and Freddie Jones. Police attempt to track down a dangerous killer on the loose. It is also known as Tower of Terror. It is based on the novel The Ravine by Kendal Young.
  11. Assault (Danger Zone) is an event played in several incarnations of the television series Gladiators. ...
  12. Assault (March 26, 1943 – September 2, 1971) "Grave Matters Farm Index North America" (horse graves), Thoroughbred Heritage, 2005, webpage: .
  13. 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; A violent onset or attack with moral weapons, as words, arguments, appeals, and the like; as, to make an ...
  14. (Assaults) Camera plan to hunt sex predators
  15. Threat to inflict injury with an apparent ability to do so. Also, any intentional display of force that would give the victim reason to fear or expect immediate bodily harm.
  16. An unlawful attack by one person upon another. See aggravated assault or simple assault.
  17. Intentional or threatened infliction of injury to another. The classification of “aggravated” is assigned when the injury is considered serious or when injury is threatened or carried out with the use of a deadly or dangerous weapon. ...
  18. an unlawful physical attack upon another; an attempt or offer to do violence to another, with or without battery, as by holding a stone or club in a threatening manner.
  19. The infliction of non-fatal injury by another person, by any means, with intent to injure or kill. Injuries resulting from legal intervention and operations of war are excluded. See Homicide.
  20. A violent attack, verbal or physical, by one person on another. The attacker and/or the victim can be male, female, slave, free person of color or white
  21. Infliction of offensive physical contact or bodily harm or the threat or attempt to inflict such conduct or harm.
  22. The application of force, or threatened application of force, to a person without their consent.
  23. Any action which brings about a harmful or offensive contact to another person. (410.01)
  24. is the story of Anton Steenwijk (Derek de Lint), who, at the age of 12, sees a neighborhood man murdered for collaborating with Nazi occupation forces. When the corpse is found outside Anton’s house, his family is accused of the murder and executed by the Nazis. ...
  25. an intentional act, verbal or physical, that can be described as creating fear or physical harm