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Noun assault has 4 senses
- assault - close fighting during the culmination of a military attack
--1 is a kind of battle, conflict, fight, engagement
--1 is a part of attack, onslaught, onset, onrush
--1 has particulars: resisting arrest; storm
- assault - a threatened or attempted physical attack by someone who appears to be able to cause bodily harm if not stopped
--2 is a kind of attack, attempt
--2 has particulars: aggravated assault; battery, assault and battery; mugging
- Assault - thoroughbred that won the triple crown in 1946
--3 is a kind of thoroughbred
- rape, violation, assault, ravishment - the crime of forcing a woman to submit to sexual intercourse against her will
--4 is a kind of sexual assault, sexual abuse, sex crime, sex offense
--4 has particulars: date rape; statutory rape, carnal abuse
Verb assault has 3 senses
- assail, assault, set on, attack - attack someone physically or emotionally; "The mugger assaulted the woman"; "Nightmares assailed him regularly"
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
- rape, ravish, violate, assault, dishonor, dishonour, outrage - force (someone) to have sex against their will; "The woman was raped on her way home at night"
--2 is one way to assail, assault, set on, attack
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
- attack, round, assail, lash out, snipe, assault - attack in speech or writing; "The editors of the left-leaning paper attacked the new House Speaker"
--3 is one way to knock, criticize, criticise, pick apart
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
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