Word Finder - assault

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A violent onset or attack with physical means, for example blows, weapons, etc.

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to make assault upon a man, a house, or a town

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A violent onset or attack with moral weapons, for example words, arguments, appeals, and the like

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to make an assault on the prerogatives of a prince, or on the constitution of a government

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An attempt to commit battery: a violent attempt, or willful effort with force or violence, to do hurt to another, but without necessarily touching his person, as by lifting a fist in a threatening manner, or by striking at him and missing him.

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The crime whose action is such an attempt.

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An act that causes someone to apprehend imminent bodily harm.

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The tort whose action is such an act.

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A non-competitive combat between two fencers.

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To attack, physically or figuratively.

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Loud music assaulted our ears as we entered the building.

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To threaten or harass.

Rome, attacked by the French army, was taken by assault after a month's sanguinary siege.

Didn't he know that his brutal assault proved nothing?

If they found you out, the assault on you from every quarter would be unimaginable.

That was assault of a peace officer in the performance of his duty.

God, if this ability became widespread, it would be an assault of secrecy itself!

That's assault of a police officer!

After the assault, some deplorable excesses were committed by the victorious troops.

If the assault only led to injury and was unintentional, the assailant in a quarrel had to pay the doctor's fees.

Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, limb for limb was the penalty for assault upon an amelu.

Doubt and questions often arise in an acquaintance assault.

Josephus, whose pretences had postponed the final assault, hid in a cave with forty men.

And then he released her as suddenly as he had begun the assault.

When the assault was decided upon, Villehardouin himself was in the fifth "battle," the leader of which was Mathieu de Montmorency.

It also suffered assault in 1688 and 1690.

The assault on the following day was a disastrous failure.

Brooks (1819-1857), for his assault upon Senator Charles Sumner, was challenged by Brooks.

At last by a sudden assault the Sea-Beggars seized the town of Brill at the mouth of Capture of n the Maas (April I, 1572).

The typical amok of mass assault is usually the result of circumstances which render a Malay desperate.

Canudos was besieged and captured in September 1897, Conselheiro being killed in the final assault.

In the course of that year Kuprili regained Servia and Bulgaria, placed Tok611 on the throne of Transylvania, and on the 6th of October took Belgrade by assault.

In war they trembled at the sound of a trumpet, in peace they quaked before the shouting of their own demagogues; and during the assault of Philip II.

Extremely pertinacious in this respect, the poet went on attempting to storm the theatre, with assault upon assault, all practically failures until the seventh and last, which was unfortunately posthumous.

During the Mexican war he was twice severely wounded in a reconnaissance at Cerro Gordo, 1847, was engaged in the siege of Vera Cruz, the battles of Contreras, Churubusco, and Molino del Rey, the storming of Chapultepec, and the assault on the city of Mexico, and received three brevets for gallant and meritorious service.

There was a last fruitless assault, delivered by some of the Confederate brigades on the right that had not received Beauregard's order against Nelson's intact troops, who were supported by the fire of the gunboats on the Tennessee.

The 4th brigade of the Guards now received their orders to attack Jerusalem (a hamlet a little south of St Privat), and the 1st division was ordered to assault St Privat itself.

It was decided that that army should halt and reconstitute for the present, as any further advance could only be carried out by a deliberate and carefully planned assault on the canal line.

Moreover, though they must have been well aware that an attack was coming, the date and time were unknown and remained unknown till the moment of the assault.

At the Wilderness he commanded, during the second day's fighting, half of the Union army; at Spottsylvania he had charge of the fierce and successful attack on the "salient"; at Cold Harbor his corps formed the left wing in the unsuccessful assault on the Confederate lines.

The first of the three dialogues contains the substance of the allegory, which, under the disguise of an assault on heathen mythology, is a direct attack on all forms of anthropomorphic religion.

After a defeat by sea, Polycrates repelled an assault upon the walls, and subsequently withstood a siege by a joint armament of Spartans and Corinthians assembled to aid the rebels.

But the news of Gustavus's death spread and the fire of the assault died out.

In the first line were the corps of Reille and D'Erlon, who were destined to attack the allied line and prepare it for the final assault.

The town, which existed in the middle of the 13th century, was burnt down in 1864 during the assault by the Prussians upon the Diippler trenches.

This great fortress was taken by assault, in which Serbian troops bore a part, during the last days of March, and a second armistice was arranged soon afterwards.

Joannis Apostoli indole et origine (1820), the first systematic assault on the traditional attribution, remains unrefuted in its main contention.

Corps furiously attacked Okasaki on the Manjuyama, and though its first assault drove in a portion of Okasaki's line, a second and a third, made in the night, failed to shake the constancy of the 15th brigade.

The real assault was made on the night of the 21st on the two Pan-Lung forts (semi-permanent) on the centre of the north-eastern front.

On the 26th of November another assault was made on the same lines as that of the 30th of October.

With 100,000 men and this urgent need of immediate victory, Nogi and the marshal's staff officers felt bound to make a third general assault.

On the 27th cf November, after losing 12,000 men, the assault was abandoned.

On the 18th the assault was renewed, and on the 10th the Confederates, advancing behind movable breastworks of water-soaked bales of hemp, forced the besieged, now long without water, to surrender.

The peasants of the open country welcomed the Turks as deliverers, and Reshid's conciliatory policy facilitated his march to Athens, which fell at the first assault on the 25th of August, siege being at once laid to the Acropolis, where Gouras and his troops had taken refuge.

The first-fruits of this new resolve were a quite gratuitous attack on his old friend, the distinguished humanist and jurist Ulrich Zasius (1461-1536), for a doctrine proclaimed ten years before, and a simultaneous assault on Erasmus's Annotationes in Novum Testamentum.

With adequate numbers and material resources, the Crown Prince was able to deliver a successful general assault on March 5 1913, and the Turkish garrison, numbering about 30,000, wounded and unwounded, surrendered next day.

The Bulgarians, on their side, allocated a whole army to the task of dealing with it, by investment, brusque assault or regular siege, or a combination of those methods.

Armistice proposals were already under discussion, and the battle was broken off in the afternoon of the assault.

During the artillery preparation, the infantry took up their positions of assault - one and a half brigades against the northern and western forces of Tarabosh, and one and a half brigades against the south.

On the latter, the assault was repulsed, completely and with heavy losses.

And now, when the fortress seemed quite safe from further assault, it suddenly capitulated on April 22.

Ivanov determined to push home the assault on the main position on the night of the 25th26th, an order which involved an approach march in broad daylight and consequently heavy losses.