Assail
verb
To make a violent attack on.
The army assailed the fortress.
Often appears as...
- assail a fortress
- assail an enemy
verb
To criticize someone strongly or make them question themselves.
He was assailed by doubts about his decision.
Often appears as...
- assail one's doubts
- assail one's decisions
verb
To approach with a request or plea.
Audience members assailed the speaker with questions.
Often appears as...
- assail with questions
- assail with pleas
verb
To make a violent attack on.
The army assailed the fortress.
Often appears as...
- assail a fortress
- assail an enemy
verb
To criticize someone strongly or make them question themselves.
He was assailed by doubts about his decision.
Often appears as...
- assail one's doubts
- assail one's decisions
verb
To approach with a request or plea.
Audience members assailed the speaker with questions.
Often appears as...
- assail with questions
- assail with pleas
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Physical attack
Use 'assail' for describing aggressive physical confrontations.
Knights assailed the castle walls with ladders and siege engines.
Pro Tip 2/3Strong action
'Assail' implies forceful action, often sudden and intense.
The storm assailed the coastline with fierce winds and rain.
Pro Tip 3/3Not just physical
While 'assail' can mean a literal attack, it is also used metaphorically.
She assailed the problem with a combination of research and creativity.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical attack
Use 'assail' for describing aggressive physical confrontations.
Knights assailed the castle walls with ladders and siege engines.
Pro Tip 2/3Strong action
'Assail' implies forceful action, often sudden and intense.
The storm assailed the coastline with fierce winds and rain.
Pro Tip 3/3Not just physical
While 'assail' can mean a literal attack, it is also used metaphorically.
She assailed the problem with a combination of research and creativity.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical attack
Use 'assail' for describing aggressive physical confrontations.
Knights assailed the castle walls with ladders and siege engines.
Pro Tip 2/3Strong action
'Assail' implies forceful action, often sudden and intense.
The storm assailed the coastline with fierce winds and rain.
Pro Tip 3/3Not just physical
While 'assail' can mean a literal attack, it is also used metaphorically.
She assailed the problem with a combination of research and creativity.
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Video examples
Julian Treasure: Shh!...
whichever style you enjoy particularly. And let's take a stewarding role for the sound around us. Protect your ears? Yes, absolutely. Design soundscapes to be beautiful around you at home and at work. And let's start to speak up when people are assailing us with the noise that I played you early on.
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Bonus Episode: Bicycles,...
not in mine is the momentous issue of civil war the government will not assail you you can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors you have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government while i shall have the most solemn one to preserve protect
Video examples
Julian Treasure: Shh!...
whichever style you enjoy particularly. And let's take a stewarding role for the sound around us. Protect your ears? Yes, absolutely. Design soundscapes to be beautiful around you at home and at work. And let's start to speak up when people are assailing us with the noise that I played you early on.
Video examples
Bonus Episode: Bicycles,...
not in mine is the momentous issue of civil war the government will not assail you you can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors you have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government while i shall have the most solemn one to preserve protect
Example 1 of 2
Quote examples
Hideki Tojo
Japanese General
Thus, it was to seek true civilization and true justice for all the peoples of the world, and to view this as the destruction of personal freedom and respect is to be assailed by the hatred and emotion of war, and to make hasty judgments.
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Wes Craven
American Director
There was a period around Columbine when horror films were being kind of assailed by the government. The studios got very afraid that they were going to be sued, and studios at about that time were all being taken over by corporations.
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Alan Rickman
British Actor
I love perfumes. Every morning when my girlfriend and I come down to the courtyard in our block of flats we're assailed by the most delicious scent - jasmine round a doorway. It almost makes me swoon.
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Havelock Ellis
British Psychologist
The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.
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David Brock
American Author
Bill Clinton's legacy on job creation should be assailed by none and admired by every presidential candidate who hopes to do the same.
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Alain Juppe
French Politician
The French are very bizarre. There is this collective depiction: 'We're in decline, we're being assailed, we must protect ourselves.
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Robert Green Ingersoll
American Lawyer
Our fathers knew that the flag was never intended to protect any man who wanted to assail it.
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John Dryden
English Poet
Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.
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John Kenneth Galbraith
American Economist
There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.
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Christopher Hitchens
American Author
The citizens of Tumortown are forever assailed with cures and rumors of cures.
Quote examples
Hideki Tojo
Japanese General
Thus, it was to seek true civilization and true justice for all the peoples of the world, and to view this as the destruction of personal freedom and respect is to be assailed by the hatred and emotion of war, and to make hasty judgments.
Quote examples
Wes Craven
American Director
There was a period around Columbine when horror films were being kind of assailed by the government. The studios got very afraid that they were going to be sued, and studios at about that time were all being taken over by corporations.
Quote examples
Alan Rickman
British Actor
I love perfumes. Every morning when my girlfriend and I come down to the courtyard in our block of flats we're assailed by the most delicious scent - jasmine round a doorway. It almost makes me swoon.
Quote examples
Havelock Ellis
British Psychologist
The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.
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David Brock
American Author
Bill Clinton's legacy on job creation should be assailed by none and admired by every presidential candidate who hopes to do the same.
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Alain Juppe
French Politician
The French are very bizarre. There is this collective depiction: 'We're in decline, we're being assailed, we must protect ourselves.
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Robert Green Ingersoll
American Lawyer
Our fathers knew that the flag was never intended to protect any man who wanted to assail it.
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John Dryden
English Poet
Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.
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John Kenneth Galbraith
American Economist
There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.
Quote examples
Christopher Hitchens
American Author
The citizens of Tumortown are forever assailed with cures and rumors of cures.
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