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What (who) is Assail - definition
assail
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(assails, assailing, assailed)
1.
If someone assails you, they criticize you strongly. (WRITTEN)
The opposition's newspapers assail the government each day...
= attack
VERB: V n
2.
If someone assails you, they attack you violently. (WRITTEN)
Her husband was assailed by a young man with a knife in a Glasgow park.
= attack
VERB: V n
3.
If you are assailed by something unpleasant such as fears or problems, you are greatly troubled by a large number of them. (WRITTEN)
She is assailed by self-doubt and emotional insecurity.
= beset
VERB: usu passive, be V-ed
Assail
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·vt To encounter or meet purposely with the view of mastering, as an obstacle, difficulty, or the like.
II. Assail ·vt To attack with violence, or in a vehement and hostile manner; to Assault; to Molest; as, to assail a man with blows; to assail a city with artillery.
III. Assail ·vt To attack morally, or with a view to produce changes in the feelings, character, conduct, existing usages, institutions; to attack by words, hostile influence, ·etc.; as, to assail one with appeals, arguments, abuse, ridicule, and the like.
assail
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[?'se?l]
¦ verb
1. make a concerted or violent attack on.
2. (of an unpleasant feeling) come upon (someone) strongly.
Derivatives
assailable adjective
Origin
ME: from OFr. asaill-, stressed stem of asalir, from med. L. assalire, from L. assilire, from ad- 'to' + salire 'to leap'.
Examples of use of Assail
1. To a substantial degree, Romney himself has created opportunities for his opponents to assail him.
2. But he took the opportunity of the question to assail Democratic maneuvers in Congress.
3. A voice that speaks out for the rule of law and against those who assail it.
4. In March 2000, Ney used the Congressional Record to assail Boulis.
5. Yet when the danger has passed, they will assail you (believers) with sharp tongues, begrudging you all that is good.