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assault English

Meaning assault meaning

What does assault mean?
Definitions in simple English

assault Verb

— When you assault someone, you attack and hurt that person. He punched someone and got arrested for assault.

assault

— verb (= assail, attack) attack someone physically or emotionally The mugger assaulted the woman Nightmares assailed him regularly — noun close fighting during the culmination of a military attack — noun a threatened or attempted physical attack by someone who appears to be able to cause bodily harm if not stopped — noun (= rape) the crime of forcing a woman to submit to sexual intercourse against her will — verb (= rape) force (someone) to have sex against their will The woman was raped on her way home at night — verb (= attack) attack in speech or writing The editors of the left-leaning paper attacked the new House Speaker

Assault

— noun thoroughbred that won the triple crown in 1946

Synonyms assault synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as assault?

assault English » English

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Topics assault topics

What do people use assault to talk about?
Social behavior Conflict Fight

Attack
Person Life Sexual relations

Sexual immorality

Conjugation assault conjugation

How do you conjugate assault?

assault · verb

Examples assault examples

How do I use assault in a sentence?

Simple sentences

The middle aged man was charged with assault.
Tom has been arrested three times for assault.
Government troops launched a pre-emptive attack on the insurgents, after receiving intelligence reports that they were planning an assault.
The charge was upgraded from assault to murder after the death of the victim.
Tom witnessed the assault.
He was charged with assault and battery.
Tom asked Mary if she knew where he could buy an assault rifle.
You can be charged with criminal assault without actually touching the victim.
Did Tom try to assault you?
Tom was arrested for assault.
Tom was charged with first degree assault and sentenced to 15 years in prison.

Movie subtitles

Apart from wilful damage, disorderly behaviour and assault of a police officer?
Well, if you're really a sheriff, you should arrest yourself for assault.
The next morning, the general assault began.
Assault. Carrying brass knuckles. Disturbing peace.
You've committed assault, that's what you've done, and you can come along to the station with me.
He has previously been arrested 11 times on charges ranging from grand larceny to felonious assault.
I, myself, unable to keep pace with his mental quirks and fearful of assault. turned down an opportunity to represent him as his attorney.
I will take the right with my bodyguard. And will take the assault force, as well.
But this is assault.
Tell them to hold their fire and watch for the assault. Yes, sir.
Hold your fire, and watch for the assault!
I'm merely here to guarantee you protection against any unprovoked assault.
Unprovoked assault!
Policeman? Arrest that man for assault.
A carnival barker, hauled in several times. for assault and battery and drunkenness in public.
It would take at least five regiments for the assault.
I, myself, unable to keep pace with his mental quirks and fearful of assault, turned down an opportunity to represent him as his attorney.
I'm charging both Frank and Jesse James with assault with attempt to murder.
But you're so dazzled to command an army that you'd follow the devil in an assault on heaven.
Arrest that man for assault.
An assault on the ghetto.
And you conceive it to be part of your mission. to assault and loot the ship of an ambassador to the court?
Nice little case of assault and battery.
How did the assault take place?
We'll get a conviction on an attempted murder. or first-degree assault or however else the office wishes to proceed.
Assault lies dormant within us all.
Assault.
Everyone who saw the assault.
Why, it was a malicious unprovoked assault.
It's a clear case of assault and battery.
But I would like to stay with this assault battalion.
And in our Assault Battalion?
I'll have you arrested for assault.
Dorm 3: the oldest. Assault troops. Center!
You heard him. You saw him assault me.
Assault!
Everyone assault!
His Serene Highness Khan Islam Giray Khan ordered to assist, ours won't assault the castle!

News and current affairs

And yet, each time, gun owners scream that freedom will be eliminated if they are unable to buy assault weapons and 100-round clips.
Better to let the Americans do it, though of course these Shi'a leaders prefer a slow strangulation of al-Sadr to a direct and bloody assault.
While Grillo's supporters may ignite fireworks in protest of these gilded giveaways for a few months, a consistent assault leading to genuine reform seems doubtful.
First, the United States justified the Israeli assault and blamed everything on Hamas, just as it used to pin all responsibility for whatever went wrong on Yasir Arafat and Fatah.
Murdering more than 60 innocent young people at a summer camp with an assault rifle, after bombing a chunk of central Oslo, is, to put it mildly, morally eccentric - something most sane people would never dream of doing.
For two years, I, like many Americans, have been focused intently on documenting, exposing, and alerting the nation to the Bush administration's criminality and its assault on the Constitution and the rule of law - a story often marginalized at home.
When an elected government is under assault from the bond markets, it is essential for the political class to remain united.
Japanese conservatives view their country's post-war pacifist constitution, written by Americans in 1946, as a humiliating assault on Japanese sovereignty.
Israel's assault scored impressive initial successes, while Hamas can take pride in having reached Tel Aviv with its missiles, an achievement that eluded Hezbollah in the 2006 Lebanon War.
BRUSSELS - Many Europeans feel like their countries are under assault, as huge numbers of migrants flow across their borders.
Neither Europe's leaders nor its citizens seem to recognize that Russia's attack on Ukraine is indirectly an assault on the EU and its principles of governance.
But, while the assault on the Qing Dynasty by foreign powers is a historical fact, the notion that there has been one enduring China struggling against avaricious outsiders across several millennia is false and self-serving.
In the worst cases, voices command the listener to undertake destructive acts such as suicide or assault.
Given that an Israeli offensive would need to be coordinated with the US, while an American assault would not require Israeli military support, Iran would consider both to be American attacks.
He responded by quickly launching a frontal assault on the cartels, with the support of the army.
COPENHAGEN - The attack on the French magazine Charlie Hebdo was an assault on democracy, on freedom, and on the ideals that underpin all free societies.
However, the assault from Japan, a speck of dust in its own backyard, shattered this self-assurance and was experienced as a shocking and intolerable humiliation.
By this time, we knew that the deaths had been caused by a Russian military assault; it subsequently came to light that a wave of Russian ballistic missiles (probably Scuds) had killed more than a hundred people.
Entertaining gossip has mutated into an assault on privacy, with newspapers claiming that any attempt to keep them out of people's bedrooms is an assault on free speech.
Such a calibrated approach, however, combining a differentiated understanding of the nature of Saddam's regime and its weaknesses, has a better chance of success than an outright assault, or the dangers inherent in allowing Saddam to remain in power.
The nighttime assault on a United Nations employee and her family made international news, but hundreds of less well connected Burmese have been similarly abused.
Where the atheist assault is often correct is in pinpointing the amount of harm frequently done in our world by such fundamentalists.
In times when the international system has been under assault, only America has had the standing to provide renewed credibility to the rule of law.

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