Definition of Assault

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Assault

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.

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Assault Quotations

Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
Mark Twain

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.
Voltaire

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.
Thomas Hobbes

Well, we see an increasingly weaker labor movement as a result of the overall assault on the labor movement and as a result of the globalization of capital.
Angela Davis

Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.
Camille Paglia

All we know is that, at times, fighting the Russians, we had to remove the piles of enemy bodies from before our trenches, so as to get a clear field of fire against new waves of assault.
Paul von Hindenburg

Most writers like to maintain some sort of anonymity. For me, making videos was an assault.
Sheryl Crow

The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
Barry Commoner

George W. Bush and his administration embarked on a full-scale assault on civil liberties, human rights and the rule of law, walking away from his international obligations, tearing up international treaties, protocols and UN conventions.
Bianca Jagger

Assault Translations

assault in Afrikaans is aanval, aanslag
assault in Danish is anslag, angribe
assault in Dutch is aanvallen, aantasten
assault in French is attenter, assaut, assaille, assaillez, assaillent
assault in German is angreifen
assault in Italian is assalire, assalto
assault in Latin is insultus, oppugno, impugno, ingruo
assault in Portuguese is assalto

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