verb
definition
To attack, physically or figuratively.
example
Loud music assaulted our ears as we entered the building.
definition
To threaten or harass.
Examples of assaulted in a Sentence
If our privacy was assaulted by some mistake we made, at least we could start over.
This detachment, commanded by Lord Percy, was assaulted, and returned with heavy loss.
It's my friend in there who was assaulted.
On the 22nd of November the Japanese assaulted the trench round Chi-Kuan battery.
Wellington's columns, under Beresford, were now called upon to make a flank march of some two miles, under artillery, and occasionally musketry, fire, being threatened also by cavalry, and then, while the Spanish troops assaulted the north of the ridge, to wheel up, mount the eastern slope, and carry the works.
In 1850 a half-pay officer, named Pate, assaulted the queen by striking her with a stick, and crushing her bonnet.
Enghien and Turenne had arranged that the Army of France was to move direct upon Freiburg by Wolfenweiter, while the Army of Weimar was to make its way by hillside tracks to Wittnau and thence to attack the rear of Mercy's lines while Enghien assaulted them in front.
The same men were not seldom assaulted under the name of "theists"; the later distinction between "theist" and "deist," which stamped the latter word as excluding the belief in providence or in the immanence of God, was apparently formulated in the end of the 18th century by those rationalists who were aggrieved at being identified with the naturalists.
On the 10th Colonel John Garland (1792-1861) assaulted the lower (north-eastern) part of the city; he was driven back, but captured one of the forts.
Thus in 1238 he demanded that the king should release certain Oxford scholars who had assaulted the legate Otho.
The multitude of creatures created a cacophony of calls that assaulted our ears.
On the night following the surrender of Burns (May 1854) Dana was brutally assaulted on the Boston streets.
Still flushed with their victory under Dundee, and animated by bitterest hatred of their Whiggamore foes, the Highlanders assaulted the position of the Covenanters, who were 1200 strong, with the most desperate valour.
In September 1882 the town was assaulted by the troops of the mandi, who, being repulsed, laid siege to the place, which capitulated on the 17th of January 1883.
The west door has good early ironwork; and on one of the tower-arch pillars are some remarkable early carvings of jocular character, one of which represents a man assaulted by a woman with a ladle.
Forrest assaulted Fort Anderson at Paducah but failed to capture it; and in June General Morgan made an unsuccessful attempt to take Lexington.
Arnold joined General Richard Montgomery, who was already near the city, and the combined force assaulted Quebec on the 31st of December, only to meet with complete defeat.
The lan of Halland formed part of the territory of Denmark in Sweden, and accordingly, in 1534, during his war with the Danes, Gustavus Vasa assaulted and took its chief town.
The preachers were sometimes imprisoned and many times assaulted.
He was attached to one of the British columns which assaulted the Redan on the 18th of June, and was also present at the capture of that work on the 8th of September.
Assault on a constable When a police officer is assault on a constable When a police officer is assaulted in the course of his or her duty.
The third woman alleges she was indecently assaulted by Leslie in London last year.
Another Chetnik sexually assaulted women and killed internees, in some cases using an ax to the head.
A Scarborough nightclub bouncer is assaulted by two brothers.
A female internee was sexually assaulted by a soldier while her husband and other internees watched.
As set forth below, the Serb forces killed, raped, sexually assaulted, beat and otherwise mistreated the prisoners at Omarska.
Yet Mr Kamara did not brandished the pistol in public, let alone pulled the trigger, and had never physically assaulted anyone.
Opposite the Treasury I assaulted a policeman; he didn't seem to mind.
Countryside Alliance supporter assaulted a hunt saboteur (Video and stills) Please click here to view video of incident.
Mr Kamara, whose father is from Sierra Leone, has not assaulted his racist tormentors over the six years of living in Stubbington.
The city was several times besieged, the most formidable attack being that which occurred in the reign of Andronicus I., the second emperor, when the Seljuks, under the command of Melik, the son of the great sultan Ala-ed-din, first assaulted the northern wall in the direction of the sea, and afterwards endeavoured to storm the upper citadel by night.
After a bombardment lasting from the 23rd of February to the 6th of March, the Mexicans assaulted on the 6th, were twice beaten back, and then overpowered and slaughtered the garrison, the five survivors being subsequently bayonetted in cold blood.
Our noses were assaulted by the putrefying smell of rotting flesh.
Several well-known and highly respected townsmen were assaulted whilst quietly proceeding homewards.
An individual at this stage of use is at a higher risk of being sexually assaulted.
In 1998, Fawcett dated James Orr, who assaulted Fawcett and was arrested.
A makeup artist for the show, Kylie Bell, alleged that Snoop and several others drugged and sexually assaulted her.
Boogie allegedly assaulted the waitress and was arrested.
After this incident, it's a little difficult to believe Kanye's claim on his blog after the last time he allegedly assaulted a photographer that he's "…cool with the paparazzi."
Apparently he only had a little over a week left on his probation for his 2007 arrest when he verbally assaulted a tow truck driver with racial and homophobic slurs.
His car was assaulted and Shakur was shot multiple times.
These are advertised as a solution for sensitive eyes, offering maximum protection and ventilation while you're being assaulted by those high-speed winds.
She had supposedly been kidnapped, assaulted, and left in a ditch in a different state than the one she was from.
Being assaulted shouldn't be part of a nurse's aide's job."
Parents who suspect that their child or adolescent has been raped or sexually assaulted should take the child to see a doctor and psychologist or psychiatrist.
Any child or adolescent who is raped or sexually assaulted should be taken to an emergency room immediately so that evidence against the perpetrator can be gathered, and medical treatment can be given.
Children and adolescents who have been raped or sexually assaulted are three times more likely to experience another rape in adulthood.
One in 10 sexually assaulted adolescents attempt suicide, and about 50 percent are diagnosed with phobias, depression, substance abuse, and other psychological disorders.
In addition, school performance in many sexually assaulted adolescents declines, and many eventually fail academically.
Lasting psychological trauma is especially serious in male children and adolescents who are raped or sexually assaulted.