assault
殴打,攻击,袭击,突击
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Definitions
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- : a sudden, violent attack; onslaught: an assault on tradition.
- : Law. an unlawful physical attack upon another; an attempt or offer to do violence to another, with or without battery, as by holding a stone or club in a threatening manner.
- : Military. the stage of close combat in an attack.
- : rape.
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- : to make an assault upon; attack; assail.
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Examples
At least two more women have since come forward with similar allegations of assault.
This can buy time for B and T cells from the adaptive immune system to multiply into an army that can deliver a more precise and devastating assault if one is needed.
Harvey Weinstein was fighting criminal charges for a pattern of behavior that included hotel room assaults.
The order called for a multi-agency assault on Section 230, involving the commerce and justice departments, the Federal Communications Commission, and the Federal Trade Commission.
California is a bright, shining example that you can build a humming engine of economic growth, even in a state that embraces relatively high taxes and progressive values—an unforgivable assault on conservative worldviews.
But damn, the music is catchy—a neo-soul aural assault of horns, electro swirls, yelps, funky basslines, and harmonized vocals.
Luckily, Tor was prepared for this sort of assault, and has built-in defenses to protect against it.
It was like a constant assault, an almost stupefying catalogue of mindless racial insult and injury.
For his tireless assault on evolutionary biology and downsizing the deity to fit within science, I give Meyer second place.
In their midst stands a soldier with the Lebanese armed forces in a red beret, sporting an assault rifle and an unblinking stare.
The case was an and battery that came off between two men named Brown and Henderson.