See assault in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
noun
The act of attacking:
aggression, assailment, attack, attempt, offense, offensive, onrush, onset, onslaught, strike. See attack
verb
To set upon with violent force:
aggress, assail, attack, beset, fall on (or upon), go at, have at, sail into, storm, strike. (Informal) light into, pitch into. See attackTo hit heavily and repeatedly with violent blows:
assail, baste, batter, beat, belabor, buffet, drub, hammer, pound, pummel, smash, thrash, thresh. (Informal) lambaste. (Slang) clobber. Idiom: rain blows on. See attack, strikeTo compel (another) to participate in or submit to a sexual act:
force, rape, ravish, violate. See sex
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