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    [Verb]  | "as*sail" | \ ə-ˈsāl \


    1: to attack violently : assault

    2: to encounter, undertake, or confront energetically

    3: to oppose, challenge, or criticize harshly and forcefully


    Origin: 13th century ;

     Middle English, from Anglo-French assaillir, from Vulgar Latin *assalire, alteration of Latin assilire to leap upon, from ad- + salire to leap {mat|sally|};

    [Verb]  | "assailed" 


    1: to criticize harshly and usually publicly;


      * e.g., " ... the union organizers assailed the chemical company for failing to provide a safe working environment "



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    2: to take sudden, violent action against;


      * e.g., " ... the small birds assailed the larger one that had threatened their nest "



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    [Verb]  | "assail" 


    1: to criticize harshly and usually publicly;


      * e.g., " ... the union organizers assailed the chemical company for failing to provide a safe working environment "



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    2: to take sudden, violent action against;


      * e.g., " ... the small birds assailed the larger one that had threatened their nest "



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     [ "assailant" ]

    1: A person who attacks someone on a road or a masked attacker.

      * e.g.,  ... He was attacked by an unknown assailant. 

     [ "Assailing" ]

    1: To attack with or as if with violent blows; assault.

      * e.g.,  ... Mike Tyson to Dermot Murnaghan on Sky News: ""You're starting to irritate me now... I guess I did change because I'm not assailing you"" 

     [ "assail" ]

    1: Attaking someone or something violently or verbally

      * e.g.,  ... reviewers assailed the book as soon as it came out 

     [ "Assailance" ]

    1: the act of an assailant, or assassin. To Kill, Murder.

      * e.g.,  ... i went into the room and an assailance took place. 

     [ "cultural assailant" ]

    1: A person in a position of authority who gains traction through self-aggrandizement and power-grabbing who concurrently attempts to rip apart the progress achieved in the fabric of that culture.

      * e.g.,  ... America has elected a most pernicious and destructive cultural assailant. 

     [ "unknown assailant" ]

    1: When a wife murders her husband.

      * e.g.,  ... Boomer: I have had serious and invasive and surgery and my husband was brutally murdered by an unknown assailant. AFP: You had lip filler and your finger prints were on the mix master. 

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