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assail

assail - verb

To hit heavily and repeatedly with violent blows: assault, baste, batter, beat, belabor, buffet, drub, hammer, pound, pummel, smash, thrash, thresh. Informal lambaste. Slang clobber. See attack. strike.
To attack with harsh, often insulting language: abuse, rail against or at, revile, vituperate. See praise.
To set upon with violent force: aggress, assault, attack, beset, fall on or upon, go at, have at, sail into, storm, strike. Informal light into, pitch into. See attack.