'assault' definitions:
Definition of 'assault'
From: WordNet
noun
Close fighting during the culmination of a military attack
noun
A threatened or attempted physical attack by someone who appears to be able to cause bodily harm if not stopped
noun
Thoroughbred that won the triple crown in 1946
noun
The crime of forcing a woman to submit to sexual intercourse against her will [syn: rape, violation, assault, ravishment]
verb
Attack someone physically or emotionally; "The mugger assaulted the woman"; "Nightmares assailed him regularly" [syn: assail, assault, set on, attack]
verb
Force (someone) to have sex against their will; "The woman was raped on her way home at night" [syn: rape, ravish, violate, assault, dishonor, dishonour, outrage]
verb
Synonyms of 'assault'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abuse,
- aggravated assault,
- aggression,
- ambush,
- amphibious attack,
- armed assault,
- assail,
- assailing,
- assailment,
- attack,
- banzai attack,
- barbarize,
- batter,
- battering,
- battery,
- bear,
- bear upon,
- beat up,
- beating,
- berating,
- beset,
- bitter words,
- blackening,
- blitz,
- blitzkrieg,
- boost,
- breakthrough,
- bruise,
- brutalize,
- buck,
- bull,
- bulldoze,
- bump,
- bump against,
- bunt,
- burn,
- bushwhack,
- butcher,
- butchery,
- butt,
- butt against,
- carry on,
- censure,
- charge,
- citation,
- come at,
- come down on,
- contumely,
- counterattack,
- counteroffensive,
- coup de main,
- crack down on,
- cram,
- crippling attack,
- crowd,
- dead set at,
- descend on,
- descend upon,
- descent on,
- destroy,
- diatribe,
- dig,
- disorderliness,
- diversion,
- diversionary attack,
- drive,
- elbow,
- execration,
- fall on,
- fall upon,
- flank attack,
- force,
- forcible seizure,
- frontal attack,
- gang up on,
- gas attack,
- go at,
- go for,
- go on,
- goad,
- hammer,
- hard words,
- harm,
- harry,
- have at,
- head-on attack,
- hit,
- hit like lightning,
- hold-up,
- hurtle,
- hustle,
- implication,
- impugnment,
- incrimination,
- inculpation,
- incursion,
- infiltration,
- invasion,
- invective,
- involvement,
- jab,
- jam,
- jawing,
- jeremiad,
- jog,
- joggle,
- jolt,
- jostle,
- jump,
- killing,
- land on,
- lay at,
- lay hands on,
- lay into,
- lay waste,
- laying waste,
- light into,
- lightning attack,
- lightning war,
- loot,
- looting,
- mass attack,
- massacre,
- maul,
- megadeath,
- molest,
- molestation,
- mug,
- mugging,
- nudge,
- obstreperousness,
- offense,
- offensive,
- onset,
- onslaught,
- overkill,
- panzer warfare,
- philippic,
- pile drive,
- pillage,
- pillaging,
- pitch into,
- poke,
- pounce upon,
- pound,
- press,
- prod,
- punch,
- push,
- rage,
- raid,
- ram,
- ram down,
- ramp,
- rampage,
- rant,
- rape,
- rating,
- rattle,
- rave,
- revilement,
- riot,
- rioting,
- roar,
- ruin,
- run,
- run against,
- run at,
- rush,
- sack,
- sacking,
- sail into,
- sally,
- savage,
- screed,
- set on,
- set upon,
- shake,
- shock tactics,
- shoulder,
- shove,
- slaughter,
- smite,
- sortie,
- sow chaos,
- sowing with salt,
- storm,
- stress,
- strike,
- surprise,
- swoop down on,
- take the offensive,
- tamp,
- tear,
- tear around,
- terrorize,
- thrust,
- tirade,
- tongue-lashing,
- unprovoked assault,
- unruliness,
- vandalize,
- vilification,
- violate,
- violation,
- vituperation,
- wade into,
- wreck