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Another word for assail

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Verb

  1. To hit heavily and repeatedly with violent blows

    Idioms:
    See also:

    strike

    attack

  2. To attack with harsh, often insulting language

    See also:

    praise

  3. To set upon with violent force

    See also:

    attack

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Another word for assail

Verb
  1. See also:

    attack

    See syn. study at

    attack

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Sentence Examples

  • Other members of the defense bar would surely look closely if their clients were apprehended because of unverifiable tips and assail the source, if they could locate it.

  • The orthodox Conservatives and some democrats who were jealous of his influence, while afraid to beard the great statesman himself, combined to assail his nearest friends.

  • To transgress these limits is to assail faith" (Dogmatik, p. 348).

  • As the Poles could no longer dispose of an army, they were unable to assail Russia as openly as in 1830.

  • The attempts of Methodius of Tyre at the beginning of the 4th century and Apollinarius of Laodicea about 360 to defend chiliasm and assail the theology of Origen had no result.

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