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assault verb trans. LME.
[Old French assauter, ult. from Latin ad AS-1 + saltare frequentative of salire to leap.]
Make a violent hostile attack upon by physical means; storm (a fortress etc.); commit an assault upon the person of (Law: cf. ASSAULT noun 3a). LME.
Bible (AV): Acts 17:5 But the Iewes which beleeued not..gathered a company, and..assaulted the house of Iason. J. K. Jerome George suggested walking back to Henley and assaulting a policeman, and so getting a night's lodging in the station-house.
b. euphem. Molest sexually, rape. M20.
Tempt, try. arch. E16.
Attack with hostile words etc.; seek to persuade or overcome with argument etc. M16.
A. Toffler The average American adult is assaulted by a minimum of 560 advertising messages each day.
= ASSAIL verb 6. L16.
Gibbon His vessel was assaulted by a violent tempest. D. Walcott Each spring, memories Of his own country..Assaulted him.
assaultable adjective M16.
assaulter noun a person who makes an assault; an assailant: M16.
assaultive adjective liable to commit an assault M20.