assail
verb (used with object)
to attack vigorously or violently; assault.
assailment
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a word derived from
assail.
Example Sentences
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But when Trump raised Cruz’s new assailment at a speech in Nevada on Thursday, his crowd laughed through it.
From US News ● Jan. 22, 2016
Was he not member, duly elected, without possibility of assailment in his legal right?
From Annie Besant An Autobiography by Annie Wood Besant
Even David's imperturbable self-possession was disturbed by this assailment.
From David Crockett His Life and Adventures by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
As for the men, they twisted every item about Gourlay and his domicile into fresh matter of assailment.
From The House with the Green Shutters by George Douglas Brown
The principle of assailment, if any, is the extension of the analogies beyond the Paley point....
From Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws by James Buchanan
