assail
verb (used with object)
to attack vigorously or violently; assault.
will assail
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future tenseof assail.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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I know the diehard J.F.K. supporters will assail you, but there are many taxpayers who think it appropriate that what he was really doing in the White House be made known.
From Time Magazine Archive
Oh, how I shudder at the ridicule with which he will assail us, and tremble for my own constancy under the raillery he will shower on us!
From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II by Charles James Lever
None of those youths will assail ruthlessly an ugly old woman mistaking her for a devil; he will not dream of flying in the air launched like a balloon by an army of devils.
From The Legacy of Ignorantism by T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera
Then they will assail every intruder that comes near, whether man or animal.
From The Castaways by Lolbran Pearse
This day the Vánar chiefs will boast And, with new ardour fired, their host In fiercer onset will assail Our city, and the ramparts scale.
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) Griffith
