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assailant

[ uh-sey-luhnt ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

assailant

/ əˈseɪlənt /

a person who attacks another, either physically or verbally
he was unable to recognize his assailants

From the Middle French word assaillant, dating back to 1525–35. See assail, -ant

Somebody yanks Chan and elbows him and he is momentarily distracted trying to apprehend his assailant.

The rationale in those cases, he said, is that DNA should be used to identify the assailant.

Thankfully, Linda was not injured and the assailant, a white male, was arrested.

My assailant will remain unpunished, and life on this campus will continue its course as if nothing had happened.

There was that time Nancy Kerrigan was whacked in the knee by a baton-wielding assailant in 1994.

In the distance he saw his late assailant running hard; the coach had disappeared.

So long as he had to deal with a single assailant he saw no need to move from so excellent a position.

If Mr. Adams fell where he was struck, the assailant must have had that door directly before him.

Now if he saw the tragedy from this point, he saw it over the assailant's shoulder, instead of face to face.

A second curse, and the assailant ghost-like was gliding amongst the orchard trees.

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