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assault

assault - noun

  1. The act of attacking: aggression, assailment, attack, attempt, offense, offensive, onrush, onset, onslaught, strike. See attack.

assault - verb

  1. To set upon with violent force: aggress, assail, attack, beset, fall on or upon, go at, have at, sail into, storm, strike. Informal light into, pitch into. See attack.
  2. To hit heavily and repeatedly with violent blows: assail, baste, batter, beat, belabor, buffet, drub, hammer, pound, pummel, smash, thrash, thresh. Informal lambaste. Slang clobber. See attack. strike.
  3. To compel (another) to participate in or submit to a sexual act: force, rape, ravish, violate. See sex.