Assault is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ASSAULT in dictionary:

VERB:
• to attack
• make a physical attack on
• carry out a military attack or raid on (an enemy position)
• bombard with something undesirable or unpleasant
• attack someone physically or emotionally
• force (someone) to have sex against their will
• attack in speech or writing
• attack violently
NOUN:
• an act that threatens physical harm to a person, whether or not actual harm is done
• a military attack or raid on an enemy position
• a strong verbal attack
• a concerted attempt to do something demanding
• violent attack
• A violent onset or attack with physical means, as blows, weapons, etc.; an onslaught; the rush or charge of an attacking force; onset; as, to make assault upon a man, a house, or a town.
• A violent onset or attack with moral weapons, as words, arguments, appeals, and the like; as, to make an assault on the prerogatives of a prince, or on the constitution of a government.
• An apparently violent attempt, or willful offer with force or violence, to do hurt to another; an attempt or offer to beat another, accompanied by a degree of violence, but without touching his person, as by lifting the fist, or a cane, in a threatening manner, or by striking at him, and missing him. If the blow aimed takes effect, it is a battery.
• To make an assault upon, as by a sudden rush of armed men; to attack with unlawful or insulting physical violence or menaces.
• To attack with moral means, or with a view of producing moral effects; to attack by words, arguments, or unfriendly measures; to assail; as, to assault a reputation or an administration.
• close fighting during the culmination of a military attack
• a threatened or attempted physical attack by someone who appears to be able to cause bodily harm if not stopped
• thoroughbred that won the triple crown in 1946
• the crime of forcing a woman to submit to sexual intercourse against her will
• a physical attack

Words related to ASSAULT

assaulted10 assaulter9 assaulters10 assaulting11 assaultive13 assaultiveness17 assaults8 bestorm11

Words that contain ASSAULT

assaults8 assaulted10 assaulter9 assaulters10 assaulting11 assaultive13 assaultively18 assaultiveness17 counterassault16 counterassaults17 assaultivenesse18 assaultivenesses19

How to use ASSAULT in a sentence

• Thousands of cavalry co-operated with the great army of tanks and infantry in continuing the successful assault begun on November 20.
• The enemy aimed at Chalons and Epernay and hoped by turning the French flank at Reims to capture the cathedral city without a direct assault upon its formidable defenses.
• Many who trembled at his presence, were forward in assault, when they no longer apprehended danger.
• The ram measured a terrific assault that caught the second fox in the side.
• She one day saw that all they of the hostile army, lords and others, had left their quarters and gone to watch the assault.
• Saunders was left behind with instructions to guard the chateau against assault from other sources.
• In the case of common assaults as opposed to indecent assault, the prosecution seems to have been allowable only when the object of a wanton attack was a free person.
• The assault was made on two doors at once, at front and back.
• The latter had already lost fearfully, and this renewed assault was more than they could stand.
• It happened, therefore, that when Grant was ready to begin his assault the Confederate garrison with its reinforcements outnumbered his entire army.
• When the assault was ordered, therefore, the first lines of Italian infantry suddenly appeared from out of the ground within a few yards of the Austrian trenches.
• Thus it was observed that, amidst the horror of the assault, they made very few shot in vain.
• The archbishop excited the natives to assault the assailants in the rear, while at the head of about eight hundred Spainards he opposed them in front.
• It was strongly defended with artillery, but the impetuous assault of the freebooters carried all before it, and after a three hours’ fight the city was in their hands.
• They could not assault any passengers of his and make it stick.
• The foremost man has been thrown down by the assault of the first lion, and is entangled in his great shield.
• A low whistle went through all the trenches! And then the regiments intended for the assault on Hilgard crept slowly and carefully out of the long furrows.
• King Ferdinand was hastening thither with all speed, and the Moorish monarch, after a last fierce assault upon the city, broke up his camp and retreated in despair.
• The English had failed both to surround it and to take it by assault.
• William, resolving to renew the assault next day, could not persuade his men to advance, though he offered to lead them in person.
• Our vessels could not move on account of the piles, and the enemy continued the assault with the utmost vigour.
• That assault is believed to be now impending, and its delivery will close the second chapter of the war.
• Here, from the 17th to the 27th, he held out against a bombardment, while the British forces, pushing their trenches gradually nearer, were preparing for an assault.
• An interview between Rossiter and the Home Secretary nearly ended in a personal assault.

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