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v. To attack with or as if with violent blows; assault.

v. To attack verbally, as with ridicule or censure. See Synonyms at attack.

v. To trouble; beset: was assailed by doubts.

v. To attack violently.

v. To attack with violence, or in a vehement and hostile manner; to assault; to molest

v. To encounter or meet purposely with the view of mastering, as an obstacle, difficulty, or the like.

v. To attack morally, or with a view to produce changes in the feelings, character, conduct, existing usages, institutions; to attack by words, hostile influence, etc..

To fall upon with violence; assault; attack.

To attack with reasoning, arguments, censure, abuse, criticism, appeals, entreaties, or anything that bears upon the mind or feelings: as, to assail an obnoxious person with jeers.

To fall upon; bring something to bear upon or against; come in contact with: as, the ship was assailed by a severe storm.

Synonyms Attack, Set upon, Fall upon, Assail, Assault. Attack, literally to fasten to, is the most general of these words. Set upon and fall upon have the vigor of short and familiar words, and they express a sudden, energetic attack. Assail and assault, literally to leap or spring at, are to attack vehemently and perhaps suddenly. Assault is the stronger of the two, and is especially used of attacks with personal violence, as with fists, stones, etc. All five of these words may be extended to warfare, and to contests and struggles of any kind.

v. attack someone physically or emotionally

v. attack in speech or writing

v. launch an attack or assault on; begin hostilities or start warfare with

"If Scotland be to rest under the happy reign of Robert Bruce, then envy cannot again assail Sir William Wallace, and my father has not shed his blood in vain."

assailableness    assailed    assailing    assaillant    assails   

attack   

ravish    sic    rush    profane    set    molest    reassail    desecrate    dishonour    jump   

assault    encounter    invade    attack    fall upon   

Bayle    Braille    Dail    Dale    Gael    Gail    Galle    Gayle    Hale    Jarrell   

youput    unharassed