assault
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(noun) close fighting during the culmination of a military attack |
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Related Words: battle, conflict, engagement, fight, storm |
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(satellite adjective) used in an attack; "assault weapons", "attack planes" |
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Synonyms: attack |
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(noun) an intentional physical attack or beating that causes unlawful violence to another person |
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Synonyms: assault and battery, battery |
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Related Words: attack, attempt, crime, law-breaking, mugging, resisting arrest |
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(verb) attack someone physically or emotionally; "The mugger assulted the woman"; "Nightmares assailed him regularly" |
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Synonyms: assail, attack, set on |
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Related Words: bait, beset, bulldog, desecrate, dishonor, dishonour, jump, molest, outrage, profane, rape, ravish, reassail, rush, set, set upon, sic, violate |
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(noun) turning your attention to a problem or a job etc.; "his attack on the problem was misguided"; "he did not make a direct assault on her affections" |
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Synonyms: attack |
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Related Words: attending, attention |
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(noun) the crime of forcing a woman to submit to sexual intercourse against her will |
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Synonyms: rape, ravishment, sexual assault, violation |
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Related Words: carnal abuse, crime, date rape, law-breaking, statutory rape |
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(verb) attack verbally, in speech or writing; "The editors of the left-leaning paper attacked the new House Speaker" |
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Synonyms: assail, attack, lash out, round, snipe |
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Related Words: abuse, barrage, blackguard, blister, clapperclaw, claw, criticise, criticize, pick apart, rubbish, shout, whang, whip |
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