Assailed Synonyms and Antonyms

Launch an attack or assault on; begin hostilities or start warfare with
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. vituperated
  2. attacked
  3. reviled
  4. abused
Antonyms:
  1. defended

Assailed Sentence Examples

  • A breath of almost spring-like weather assailed him.

  • It has been assailed on the most opposite grounds.

  • Here began a series of heavy spiritual trials which assailed him for many months.

  • Familiar dizziness assailed her.

  • Not only was Syria thus weakened by being detached from the body of the Seljukian empire; it was divided by dissensions within, and assailed by the Fatimite caliph of Egypt from without.

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