Synonyms for assault
əˈsɔltas·sault

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1. assaultverb

   To attack is to begin hostilities of any kind. A general invades a country by marching in troops; he attacks a city by drawing up an army against it; he assaults it by hurling his troops directly upon its defenses. Assail and assault, tho of the same original etymology, have diverged in meaning, so that assault alone retains the meaning of direct personal violence. One may assail another with reproaches; he assaults him with a blow, a brandished weapon, etc. Armies or squadrons charge; combat and encounter may be said of individual contests. To beset is to set around, or, so to speak, to stud one's path, with menaces, attacks, or persuasions. To besiege and beleaguer are the acts of armies. To encounter is to meet face to face, and may be said either of the attacking or of the resisting force or person, or of both.

   Synonyms:
   assail, attack, attack, beleaguer, beset, besiege, charge, combat, encounter, fall upon, invade, set upon, storm

   Antonyms:
   aid, befriend, cover, defend, protect, resist, shelter, shield, support, sustain, uphold, withstand

   Preposition:
   We were attacked by the enemy with cannon and musketry.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. assault

   Synonyms:
   onset, attack, aggression, onslaught

   Antonyms:
   defense, resistance, repulsion, retaliation, undermining, sapping, stratagem

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:3.0 / 1 vote

1. assaultnoun

   close fighting during the culmination of a military attack

   Synonyms:
   violation, ravishment, rape

2. assaultnoun

   a threatened or attempted physical attack by someone who appears to be able to cause bodily harm if not stopped

   Synonyms:
   violation, ravishment, rape

3. Assaultnoun

   thoroughbred that won the triple crown in 1946

   Synonyms:
   violation, ravishment, rape

4. rape, violation, assault, ravishmentverb

   the crime of forcing a woman to submit to sexual intercourse against her will

   Synonyms:
   ravishment, violation, misdemeanor, irreverence, usurpation, infraction, rapine, intrusion, infringement, misdemeanour, rape, colza, trespass, entrancement, encroachment

5. assail, assault, set on, attackverb

   attack someone physically or emotionally

   "The mugger assaulted the woman"; "Nightmares assailed him regularly"

   Synonyms:
   violate, set on, assail, lash out, snipe, ravish, round, dishonour, outrage, rape, dishonor, attack, aggress

6. rape, ravish, violate, assault, dishonor, dishonour, outrageverb

   force (someone) to have sex against their will

   "The woman was raped on her way home at night"

   Synonyms:
   snipe, delight, set on, ravish, dishonour, scandalise, offend, enthrall, profane, scandalize, disgrace, plunder, desecrate, lash out, transgress, shame, assail, enthral, round, appal, attack, enrapture, despoil, dishonor, transport, breach, rape, attaint, violate, infract, shock, outrage, appall, break, enchant, go against, spoil

7. attack, round, assail, lash out, snipe, assaultverb

   attack in speech or writing

   "The editors of the left-leaning paper attacked the new House Speaker"

   Synonyms:
   ravish, round out, set on, polish up, rape, violate, round down, polish, snipe, lash out, outrage, assail, fill out, dishonor, round, labialise, brush up, attack, labialize, flesh out, aggress, dishonour, sharpshoot, round off

Matched Categories

1. • Attack
   • Criticize
   • Fight
   • Military
   • Thoroughbred

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1. assaultnoun

   Synonyms:
   attack, onset, onslaught, aggression, invasion, charge, thrust

2. assaultnoun

   Synonyms:
   storming, storm

3. assaultverb

   Synonyms:
   assail, attack, charge, invade, STORM, fall upon, fly at, bear down upon, make aggression on

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1. assaultnoun

   Synonyms:
   onset, onslaught, charge, aggression, assailing, invasion, incursion

2. assaultverb

   Synonyms:
   attack, assail

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1. List of paraphrases for "assault":

   aggression, attack, offensive, onslaught, assaults, mugging, abuse, violence, attacks, storming, beating

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1. Jim Inhofe:

   This committee takes allegations of sexual assault very seriously - it is unacceptable, but this committee will not act on unproven allegations - allegations that do not withstand the close scrutiny of this committee's process.

2. Jamie Dimon:

   Banks are under assault, we have five or six regulators coming at us on every issue.

3. Rodney Smolla:

   The cultural atmosphere, inevitably, permeates our judicial system, and everyone connected to the system - including prosecutors, judges and jurors - inevitably have a greater sensitivity now to sexual assault, it's not a formal difference – the law is unchanged. It's the notion that the law is a human enterprise.

4. Ed Sealover:

   We stand behind the Bud Light transparency campaign and have no plans to change the advertising. Brendan Whitworth, chief of U.S. sales for parent company Anheuser-Busch, said roughly 40 percent of consumers want some kind of additional transparency on products they consume, which is a key data point for the company. The epic joust is far from over. MillerCoors just unleashed a fresh assault of its own. We launched new ads from Miller Lite that are light hearted way to poke fun at the fact that Bud Light is living in fantasy world and in real world, more taste is what matters, says Adam Collins, vice president of communications for MillerCoors. The ads consist of medieval scenes with actors portraying thefamous Bud Light knightandprisoners, walking off the commercial set to crack open a Miller Lite. Beer book author and Denver Business Journal Reporter Ed Sealover, said beer sales have been suffering. At this point, when you continue to lose sales, you need to peck at your competition because youre not taking those sales away from craft breweries right now, he said. Youre going to have to take it away from people who compete in the same market as you.

5. Donald Trump:

   We as a nation must find a way to move forward without consigning those who Donald Trump has threatened to the shadows. Their fear is entirely rational, because Donald Trump has talked openly about doing terrible things to them, every news piece that breathlessly obsesses over inauguration preparations compounds their fear by normalizing a man who has threatened to tear families apart, who has bragged about sexually assaulting women and who has directed crowds of thousands to intimidate reporters and assault Hispanic Americans.