Definition of assault

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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..

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Supportable :: Support (n.) That which maintains or preserves from being overcome, falling, yielding, sinking, giving way, or the like; subsistence; maintenance; assistance; reenforcement; as, he gave his family a good support, the support of national credit; the assaulting column had the support of a battery..
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..
Thrust :: Thrust (n.) An attack; an assault.
Assaulted :: Assaulted (imp. & p. p.) of Assaul.
Murderous :: Murderous (a.) Of or pertaining to murder; characterized by, or causing, murder or bloodshed; having the purpose or quality of murder; bloody; sanguinary; as, the murderous king; murderous rapine; murderous intent; a murderous assault..
Arms :: Arms (n.) Anything which a man takes in his hand in anger, to strike or assault another with; an aggressive weapon..
Assaulter :: Assaulter (n.) One who assaults, or violently attacks; an assailant..
Assailment :: Assailment (n.) The act or power of assailing; attack; assault.
Repulse :: Repulse (v. t.) To repel; to beat or drive back; as, to repulse an assault; to repulse the enemy..
Provocation :: Provocation (n.) Such prior insult or injury as may be supposed, under the circumstances, to create hot blood, and to excuse an assault made in retort or redress..
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..
Expugn :: Expugn (v. t.) To take by assault; to storm; to overcome; to vanquish; as, to expugn cities; to expugn a person by arguments..
Affray :: Affray (v. t.) A tumultuous assault or quarrel; a brawl; a fray.
Assault :: Assault (n.) A violent onset or attack with physical means, as blows, weapons, etc.; an onslaught; the rush or charge of an attacking force; onset; as, to make assault upon a man, a house, or a town..
Rampart :: Rampart (n.) That which fortifies and defends from assault; that which secures safety; a defense or bulwark.
Engine :: Engine (v. t.) To assault with an engine.
Salience :: Salience (n.) The quality or condition of being salient; a leaping; a springing forward; an assaulting.
Assaultable :: Assaultable (a.) Capable of being assaulted.
Assail :: Assail (v. t.) To attack with violence, or in a vehement and hostile manner; to assault; to molest; as, to assail a man with blows; to assail a city with artillery..
Assassinate :: Assassinate (v. t.) To kill by surprise or secret assault; to murder by treacherous violence.
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