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Another word for assail

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assail

v.

attack, assault, beset, plague; see attack 2. See syn. study at attack.

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Another word for assail

verb

To hit heavily and repeatedly with violent blows:
assault, baste, batter, beat, belabor, buffet, drub, hammer, pound, pummel, smash, thrash, thresh. (Informal) lambaste. (Slang) clobber. Idiom: rain blows on. See attack, strike
To attack with harsh, often insulting language:
abuse, rail against (or at), revile, vituperate. See praise
To set upon with violent force:
aggress, assault, attack, beset, fall on (or upon), go at, have at, sail into, storm, strike. (Informal) light into, pitch into. See attack

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