assail
verb (used with object)
to attack vigorously or violently; assault.
assails
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present tense formof assail (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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They’re from melting insulation foam and whatever it is that gets airborne when fire assails solar panels.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
They won us over with their mild pomposity and aloofness, whereas Rapaport’s annoyance wreaks collateral damage like a chronically unbathed person’s odor assails bystanders.
From Salon ● Jan. 15, 2026
Meanwhile, the document assails America’s friends across the Atlantic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 8, 2025
Her documentary, “One Child Nation,” which assails the country’s population-control policy, was shortlisted for the documentary Oscar in 2019.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 28, 2021
Tyranny has no enemy so formidable as that which assails not only its existence, but its reputation, which pursues it in life and beyond the grave.
From A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning by George Jacob Holyoake
