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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. (assault) assail: attack someone physically or emotionally; "The mugger assaulted the woman"; "Nightmares assailed him regularly"
  2. (assault) close fighting during the culmination of a military attack
  3. (assault) a threatened or attempted physical attack by someone who appears to be able to cause bodily harm if not stopped
  4. (assault) rape: force (someone) to have sex against their will; "The woman was raped on her way home at night"
  5. (assault) attack: attack in speech or writing; "The editors of the left-leaning paper attacked the new House Speaker"
  6. (assault) 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 (Atari 2600)) Assault is a shoot 'em up video game released in 1983, in the United States, by Bomb for the Atari 2600.
  9. (Assault (film)) 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.
  10. (Assault (Gladiators)) Assault (Danger Zone) is an event played in several incarnations of the television series Gladiators. ...
  11. (Assault (horse)) Assault (March 26, 1943 – September 2, 1971) "Grave Matters Farm Index North America" (horse graves), Thoroughbred Heritage, 2005, webpage: .
  12. (Assault (tort)) In common law, assault is the tort of acting intentionally and voluntarily causing the reasonable apprehension of an immediate harmful or offensive contact. Because assault requires intent, it is considered an intentional tort, as opposed to a tort of negligence. ...
  13. (assault) 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 ...
  14. (Assault) friendly combat between two fencers.
  15. (assault) When someone tries or threatens to hurt you. Can include violence, but is not battery. (See battery.)
  16. (Assault) an intentional act, verbal or physical, that can be described as creating fear or physical harm
  17. (Assault) The climax of an attack; closing with the enemy in close quarter fighting. See CQB.
  18. (Assault) The touching of another person with intent to harm, without that person's consent.
  19. (Assault) An intentional, unlawful threat of bodily injury to another by force, or force unlawfully directed toward the person of another, under such circumstances as create well- founded fear of imminent peril, coupled with apparent present ability to execute the attempt; see also Battery.
  20. (Assault) 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.
  21. (Assault) An unlawful attack by one person upon another. See aggravated assault or simple assault.
  22. (Assault) n. An intentional or reckless act that causes someone to be put in fear of immediate physical harm. ...
  23. (assault) A willful attempt to illegally inflict injury on or threaten a person.
  24. (assault) An attempt to commit a battery.
  25. (Assault) The intentional or threatened use of force against another person.