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
One is that if women's sexuality in Africa wasn't under assault, if women were able to say no, if women weren't subject to predatory attacks by men, or predatory behaviour generally, then you would have a disease in Africa called AIDS. But you wouldn't have a pandemic.
Stephen Lewis
A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.
Thomas Hobbes
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
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
There's an assault on human sexuality, as Judge Scalia said, they've taken sides in the culture war and on top of that if we have a democracy, the democratic processes should be that we can elect representatives who will share our point of view and vote those things into law.
Pat Robertson
Most writers like to maintain some sort of anonymity. For me, making videos was an assault.
Sheryl Crow
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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