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Blow :: Blow (n.) A sudden or forcible act or effort; an assault.

Attack :: Attack (n.) An assault upon one's feelings or reputation with unfriendly or bitter words.

Repulse :: Repulse (v. t.) To repel; to beat or drive back; as, to repulse an assault; to repulse the enemy..

Affray :: Affray (v. t.) A tumultuous assault or quarrel; a brawl; a fray.

Expugn :: Expugn (v. t.) To take by assault; to storm; to overcome; to vanquish; as, to expugn cities; to expugn a person by arguments..

Aggressive :: Aggressive (a.) Tending or disposed to aggress; characterized by aggression; making assaults; unjustly attacking; as, an aggressive policy, war, person, nation..

Belay :: Belay (v. t.) To lie in wait for with a view to assault. Hence: to block up or obstruct.

Offension :: Offension (n.) Assault; attack.

Stoner :: Stoner (n.) One who stones; one who makes an assault with stones.

Impregnable :: Impregnable (a.) Not to be stormed, or taken by assault; incapable of being subdued; able to resist attack; unconquerable; as, an impregnable fortress; impregnable virtue..

Assassinate :: Assassinate (v. t.) To kill by surprise or secret assault; to murder by treacherous violence.

Assault :: Assault (n.) A violent onset or attack with moral weapons, as words, arguments, appeals, and the like; as, to make an assault on the prerogatives of a prince, or on the constitution of a government..

Outrage :: Outrage (n.) Specifically, to violate; to commit an indecent assault upon (a female)..

Attack :: Attack (v. t.) To fall upon with force; to assail, as with force and arms; to assault..

Vindicate :: Vindicate (v. t.) To maintain or defend with success; to prove to be valid; to assert convincingly; to sustain against assault; as, to vindicate a right, claim, or title..

Salience :: Salience (n.) The quality or condition of being salient; a leaping; a springing forward; an assaulting.

Scaling :: Scaling (a.) Serving as an aid in clambering; as, a scaling ladder, used in assaulting a fortified place..

Assault :: Assault (n.) An apparently violent attempt, or willful offer with force or violence, to do hurt to another; an attempt or offer to beat another, accompanied by a degree of violence, but without touching his person, as by lifting the fist, or a cane, in a threatening manner, or by striking at him, and missing him. If the blow aimed takes effect, it is a battery..

Assailment :: Assailment (n.) The act or power of assailing; attack; assault.

Violence :: Violence (n.) Injury done to that which is entitled to respect, reverence, or observance; profanation; infringement; unjust force; outrage; assault..

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