to assault
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4.7
- verb
- /əˈsɔlt/
- Dude literally assaults his girlfriend for glancing at another guy.
- physically assaulted
- threaten to assault
- assaulted white people
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Watch on YouTubeWife killer Scott Peterson assaulted in prison over pickleball.
- Wife killer Scott Peterson assaulted in prison over pickleball.
- People equated Chris Rock being assaulted with censorship.
- Or a person getting assaulted in the coffee break room.
- And truly, that felt like you were assaulting your own body.
- If somebody physically assaults you, then they they get punished.
- Like she's not killing people, She's not assaulting people.
- And she assaulted him and he had the scars and all of this.
- Like I'm here now protecting this guy who's physically assaulting me.
- And all you do is assault a man who did it.
- This guy's doing for assaulting a federal employee.
Examples
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Your husband assaulted a pub landlord and put him in hospital.
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Kanahele is still fighting a recent federal charge for assaulting a law enforcement officer.
Academic text (1998) -
You break into his office and assault two of his staff.
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- They assaulted a police officer.
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He said, "I swear on my wife and kids' lives that I did not assault that young woman."
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Have you ever been abused, assaulted, or threatened with violence while working in social care?
Academic text (2010) -
She was just assaulted in her own home by her own son.
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Hadn't seen him since he assaulted me in the dressing room.
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On multiple occasions, he was physically assaulted, and his home was bombed several times by vigilantes.
Academic text (2003) -
He was arrested for assaulting a neighbor during an argument over property lines.
Synonyms
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1.0
To strike someone or something with force
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1.3
To use force to hurt people or damage things
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1.4
To hit someone or something quickly with a closed fist
508
2.4
To hit someone or something with force
451
4.1
To attack someone by hitting them again and again to hurt them
238
3.7
To treat a person or animal cruelly to harm them
54
9.9
To hurt or defeat someone very badly, often by hitting them
34
7.5
Hit something hard so it breaks or opens
17
7.6
Hit someone many times until they are badly hurt or win against them very clearly
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8.0
To attack violently, upset someone deeply or criticize them strongly
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6.5
Hit someone hard, often as punishment or in a fight
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5.8
To attack someone physically or with mean words
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8.5
Criticize or attack someone strongly
To hit someone or something violently, often by running into them
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
39
4.8
A military gun that fires many bullets fast and holds them in a removable box
- NSFW
31
7.9
A violent attack on someone, often with a weapon, that causes serious injury
- Specialized
2
8.1
A rifle used by soldiers that can fire many shots quickly and has a large magazine
- Archaic
1
8.1
An armored vehicle with a large gun on a tank body that supports soldiers and fights tanks
How Violent
Surface Forms
Etymology
Assault comes from an old Latin root salt- meaning 'to jump', as in somersault; to assault someone is like 'leaping at' them, so the verb means to attack someone violently.