Thesaurus / assail
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Certainly, the past year alone has assailed each of us with the fear of covid infection, loneliness, the death of loved ones and sickening instances of racial and ethnic injustice.
CHEER YOURSELF UP WITH LIGHT COMEDIES FROM ANOTHER ERAMICHAEL DIRDAMARCH 31, 2021WASHINGTON POST
Ahead of the vote, GOP lawmakers assailed the legislation as a defund-the-police effort.
HOUSE PASSES EXPANSIVE POLICING OVERHAUL BILL NAMED IN HONOR OF GEORGE FLOYDFELICIA SONMEZ, COLBY ITKOWITZMARCH 4, 2021WASHINGTON POST
She felt the temptation assail her, as of late it had been assailing her faintly, to explore this territory.
THE DAUGHTERS OF DANAUSMONA CAIRD
The bishop and his episcopals can not be hair-brained enough to seek to restore old conditions and assail our liberty.
They did not understand this manouvre, and supposed it to signify that the lieutenant did not deem it prudent to assail them.
THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND IN THREE VOLUMES, VOL.III.E. FARR AND E. H. NOLAN
Without waiting for them to assail him, the youth dashed forward like a panther at bay.
THE YOUNG RANCHERSEDWARD S. ELLIS
If he wheeled about to assail the buck he was without a single weapon, while the Sioux was doubly armed.
TWO BOYS IN WYOMINGEDWARD S. ELLIS
The partizans of abolition could assail the system at its foundation.
Have faith in the immortality of the soul, which no pain, no mortal disease, can assail or touch!'
NORTH AND SOUTHELIZABETH CLEGHORN GASKELL
It was a dangerous agitation; it had become popular; there was no telling where it would end, or what it might not assail.
BEACON LIGHTS OF HISTORY, VOLUME VIJOHN LORD
WORDS RELATED TO ASSAIL
- access
- assail
- assault
- breach
- burglarize
- burst in
- crash
- descend upon
- entrench
- fall on
- foray
- go in
- infect
- infest
- infringe
- inroad
- interfere
- loot
- make inroads
- maraud
- meddle
- muscle in
- occupy
- overrun
- overspread
- overswarm
- penetrate
- permeate
- pervade
- pillage
- plunder
- raid
- ravage
- storm
- swarm over
- trespass
- violate
- assail
- attack
- berate
- blister
- bludgeon
- castigate
- censure
- criticize
- cudgel
- denounce
- excoriate
- flay
- flog
- hammer
- hit
- lash into
- pan
- pelt
- pound
- pummel
- rake over the coals
- read the riot act
- rebuke
- reprimand
- rip into
- roast
- scathe
- scold
- scorch
- scourge
- shellac
- slam
- slap
- slash
- smear
- smother
- strike
- thrash
- trim
- upbraid
- wallop
- whip
- assail
- attack
- berate
- blister
- bludgeon
- castigate
- censure
- criticize
- cudgel
- denounce
- excoriate
- flay
- flog
- hammer
- hit
- lash into
- pan
- pelt
- pound
- pummel
- rake over the coals
- read the riot act
- rebuke
- reprimand
- rip into
- roast
- scathe
- scold
- scorch
- scourge
- shellac
- slam
- slap
- slash
- smear
- smother
- strike
- thrash
- trim
- upbraid
- wallop
- whip
- argue
- assail
- assault
- attack
- bar
- battle
- bombard
- call in question
- check
- combat
- confront
- contradict
- controvert
- counter
- counterattack
- cross
- debate
- defy
- deny
- disagree
- disapprove
- dispute
- encounter
- expose
- face
- face down
- fight
- fly in the face of
- frown at
- gainsay
- hinder
- neutralize
- not countenance
- prevent
- protest
- resist
- reverse
- run counter to
- search out
- speak against
- stand up to
- take a stand
- take issue
- take on
- taunt
- thwart
- turn the tables
- withstand
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.