Definition of assail in English:

assail

verbəˈseɪləˈseɪl

[with object]

1Make a concerted or violent attack on.
（协同，猛烈）攻击，袭击
the Scots army assailed Edward's army from the rear
苏格兰人从背后向爱德华的军队发起了猛烈进攻。
Example sentencesExamples
- The two of them are seemingly set on assailing the South African population on as many fronts as possible.
- This was a particularly risky means of concluding a siege as the attackers using ladders would be continually assailed from above on their climb up the walls.
- They approached warily, as though the food might leap up and assail their gullets violently.
- The sea does not split, nor does the earth swallow up the terrorists who assail us every day.
- The player is armed with a gun - most fortunately, because he is being assailed by a seemingly unending succession of zombies.
- As one historian wrote, ‘All forms of property were assailed, all signs of wealth and privilege were attacked.’
- Only then would the Assault Transports assail the station with their mere 250 Marines.
- So the same Opposition that's assailing the Government for not dealing with crime would go ballistic if they found out that the Minister and his men were using unorthodox methods to rid us of the devils in the society.
- They spread hatred for us with a psychotic mass murderer and then they assailed the capital and when we moved to accost them they mysteriously withdrew.
- The crowd became angry and quickly began assailing the police.
- Yet her next note spoke of storms assailing the cottage and turbulence of fears and loneliness.
- On Fifth and Sixth Avenues, cutting the length of Manhattan, are gauntlets of flag-sellers assailing vehicles at every stop light.
- To attack the first is not to assail the last - said Charlotte Bronte, English novelist
- Knowing that his brother is frail, and more suited to school than to the front, he assails the train that is destined to take his sibling to the front lines.
- The wind is blustering through the trees outside, and every so often assails the outside walls of my house as if testing their fortitude.
- He is quickly running out of excuses as to why his ministry has failed to make a dent in the plethora of criminal activity assailing the country.
Synonyms
attack, assault, make an assault on, launch an attack on, pounce on, set upon, set about, launch oneself at, weigh into, fly at, let fly at, turn on, round on, lash out at, hit out at, beset, belabour, fall on, accost, mug, charge, rush, storm, besiege
informal lay into, tear into, lace into, sail into, pitch into, get stuck into, wade into, let someone have it, beat up, jump
British informal have a go at
North American informal light into
1. 1.1 (of an unpleasant feeling or physical sensation) come upon (someone) suddenly and strongly.
  （不愉快的情感或身体感觉）突然猛烈地袭向
  she was assailed by doubts and regrets
  疑惑和悔恨突然涌向她的心头。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Whatever the cause, the patient is assailed by the terrifying feeling of being out of control.
  As you finally ascend the topmost mast, a faint vertigo assails you, but the adrenaline is buzzing.
  However, when he woke up the following morning he was assailed by what he thought was ‘an unusual resinous smell’.
  When doubts assailed him, he got many scriptural reinforcements: ‘It is I, be not afraid - be not faithless, but believing.’
  We believe, though we are constantly assailed with doubt.
  New emotions assailed her so strongly she dropped to her knees with a moan.
  Suddenly, she was assailed with a wave of dizziness.
  I remember the feelings that assailed me when I heard about the crash, even before the humanising details emerged - the names, the ages, the family circumstances.
  For example, over a good fifty yards of my walk to the station today I was assailed by an unbelievably strong smell… of Parmesan.
  Suddenly I was assailed by overwhelming apprehension.
  Beware of any impulses that assail you.
  As the old patterns die in their minds and the new ones begin to take shape, people are assailed by self-doubt and misgivings about their leaders.
  The strain of looking at him hurts so I turn my eyes in an easier direction, doubt assailing me.
  Terrors assailed him, tumbling over one another.
  Ringing bells, whirring motors and flickering lights assailed the senses as one entered the darkened gallery from the street.
  Suddenly, unwanted mental images assailed her, forcing her to swallow hard and blink to keep from reacting.
  He slid his arm around her and pulled her closer, closing his eyes under the feelings assailing him.
  As I visited old haunts I was once again assailed by familiar feelings of disgust.
  Mixed feelings could assail you in relation to love.
  He started to get up and groaned aloud as all sorts of aches and pains assailed him.
  Synonyms
  trouble, disturb, worry, plague, beset, torture, torment, rack, bedevil, nag, vex, harass, pester, dog
  be prey to, be the victim of
2. 1.2 Criticize strongly.
  强烈地批评
  he assailed a group of editors for their alleged excesses
  Example sentencesExamples
  Critics have assailed the law since its inception.
  Twelve percentage points behind in the polls, assailed by the left of his party for being too strident in reforming the welfare state, and with virtually every leader of industry set against him, things are looking up.
  Critics have assailed the lack of political leadership in all this.
  At a time when the Government is assailed by criticism and controversy, and when the Prime Minister's reputation is under such continuous attack, one would expect the opposition to be riding on a wave of success.
  Before the last elections, lawmakers of both parties were on their hind legs assailing these traitors, promising action!
  That statement assailed his position against abortion, contraception, sterilization, women's rights, divorce, stem cell research and gay rights.
  He assails the flow of private money into campaigns; he sides with portions of the corporate political agenda.
  Why take risks, when the very name of the opera secures sold-out performances, assuming the critics don't assail it, or the conservative crowds don't shun it?
  Although the open admissions policy was weakened, its critics continued to assail it.
  The energetic outsiders were true-blue conservatives who assailed the old guard and occasionally defeated their incumbents in primaries or as third-party challengers.
  The red-baiting demagogue who publicly made wild, unsubstantiated charges assailing victims' patriotism proved no match for the fact-checking investigative reporter.
  Critics assailed the commission, as well as a number of state and local organizations, for commercializing centennial activities.
  The book sold well and rapidly became fashionable, but was assailed in various critical pamphlets for length, tedium, and doubtful morality.
  I also conveyed our deep regret over the tendency of some Australian officials to continue to defy the policies by assailing the policies of other countries.
  It also assails the ideas of size and ingenuity, and, significantly, calls for full corporate compliance with a growing body of state regulation.
  Beyond the forces of sheer entertainment, the director doesn't pull punches in his assailing the church.
  Moving with precise coordination, the Arbiters pounced upon their prey, assailing him with stinging strikes of their daggers.
  The film succeeds a little, if without imagination, in assailing the assumptions and hypocrisy of privileged white folks, but the film indulges its own presuppositions.
  I didn't expect Tim to actually like the show (since he usually assails everything I watch with a sort of good-humoured mockery), but he'd sit down and watch it with me and even ask me to tape it when he had to go out.
  Synonyms
  criticize, censure, attack, condemn, castigate, chastise, berate, lambaste, lash, pillory, find fault with, abuse, revile, give someone a bad press
  informal knock, slam, hammer, lay into, give someone a roasting, cane, blast, give someone hell, bite someone's head off, jump down someone's throat
  British informal slate, slag off, monster
  North American informal pummel, cut up
  Australian/New Zealand informal bag
  dated rate
  archaic slash
  rare excoriate, objurgate, reprehend

Derivatives

assailable

adjectiveəˈseɪləb(ə)ləˈseɪləb(ə)l

He looked alien, almost other worldly - and so desperately assailable.
Example sentencesExamples
- None had the training or experience to deal with a battlefield dominated by machine guns and artillery - a battlefield, which offered no assailable flanks as their soldiers dug in to escape the fury of mass industrial warfare.
- The learned trial judge, as was his province, made those findings, and it is my submission that those findings are not assailable.
- And taste is now a far weaker, more assailable notion than it was in the late eighteenth century.
- So, on any test of scrutiny or deference, there is no arguable reason for suggesting that this point of the claimant makes the determination assailable.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French asaill-, stressed stem of asalir, from medieval Latin assalire, from Latin assilire, from ad- 'to' + salire 'to leap'; compare with assault.

salient from mid 16th century:
This was first used as a heraldic term meaning ‘leaping’. It comes from Latin salire ‘to leap’. The sense ‘outstanding, significant’ as in salient point is found from the mid 19th century. Salire is behind many other English words including assail and assault (Middle English) ‘jumping on’ people; exult (late 16th century) ‘jump up’; insult; and result (Late Middle English) originally meaning ‘to jump back’. Salacious (mid 17th century) ‘undue interest in sexual matters’ is based on Latin salax, from salire. Its basic sense is ‘fond of leaping’, but as the word was used of stud animals it came to mean ‘lustful’. From the French form of salire come to sally out (mid 16th century) and sauté (early 19th century).

Rhymes

ail, ale, avail, bail, bale, bewail, brail, Braille, chain mail, countervail, curtail, dale, downscale, drail, dwale, entail, exhale, fail, faille, flail, frail, Gael, Gail, gale, Grail, grisaille, hail, hale, impale, jail, kale, mail, male, webmail, nonpareil, outsail, pail, pale, quail, rail, sail, sale, sangrail, scale, shale, snail, stale, swale, tail, tale, they'll, trail, upscale, vail, vale, veil, surveil, wail, wale, whale, Yale

Definition of assail in US English:

assail

verbəˈseɪləˈsāl

[with object]

1Make a concerted or violent attack on.
（协同，猛烈）攻击，袭击
the Scots army assailed Edward's army from the rear
苏格兰人从背后向爱德华的军队发起了猛烈进攻。
Example sentencesExamples
- They approached warily, as though the food might leap up and assail their gullets violently.
- As one historian wrote, ‘All forms of property were assailed, all signs of wealth and privilege were attacked.’
- The two of them are seemingly set on assailing the South African population on as many fronts as possible.
- This was a particularly risky means of concluding a siege as the attackers using ladders would be continually assailed from above on their climb up the walls.
- The player is armed with a gun - most fortunately, because he is being assailed by a seemingly unending succession of zombies.
- The wind is blustering through the trees outside, and every so often assails the outside walls of my house as if testing their fortitude.
- So the same Opposition that's assailing the Government for not dealing with crime would go ballistic if they found out that the Minister and his men were using unorthodox methods to rid us of the devils in the society.
- They spread hatred for us with a psychotic mass murderer and then they assailed the capital and when we moved to accost them they mysteriously withdrew.
- Knowing that his brother is frail, and more suited to school than to the front, he assails the train that is destined to take his sibling to the front lines.
- The crowd became angry and quickly began assailing the police.
- On Fifth and Sixth Avenues, cutting the length of Manhattan, are gauntlets of flag-sellers assailing vehicles at every stop light.
- The sea does not split, nor does the earth swallow up the terrorists who assail us every day.
- He is quickly running out of excuses as to why his ministry has failed to make a dent in the plethora of criminal activity assailing the country.
- To attack the first is not to assail the last - said Charlotte Bronte, English novelist
- Yet her next note spoke of storms assailing the cottage and turbulence of fears and loneliness.
- Only then would the Assault Transports assail the station with their mere 250 Marines.
Synonyms
attack, assault, make an assault on, launch an attack on, pounce on, set upon, set about, launch oneself at, weigh into, fly at, let fly at, turn on, round on, lash out at, hit out at, beset, belabour, fall on, accost, mug, charge, rush, storm, besiege
1. 1.1usually be assailed (of an unpleasant feeling or physical sensation) come upon (someone) suddenly and strongly.
  （不愉快的情感或身体感觉）突然猛烈地袭向
  she was assailed by doubts and regrets
  疑惑和悔恨突然涌向她的心头。
  Example sentencesExamples
  For example, over a good fifty yards of my walk to the station today I was assailed by an unbelievably strong smell… of Parmesan.
  Suddenly I was assailed by overwhelming apprehension.
  Mixed feelings could assail you in relation to love.
  As the old patterns die in their minds and the new ones begin to take shape, people are assailed by self-doubt and misgivings about their leaders.
  I remember the feelings that assailed me when I heard about the crash, even before the humanising details emerged - the names, the ages, the family circumstances.
  As you finally ascend the topmost mast, a faint vertigo assails you, but the adrenaline is buzzing.
  Ringing bells, whirring motors and flickering lights assailed the senses as one entered the darkened gallery from the street.
  Beware of any impulses that assail you.
  As I visited old haunts I was once again assailed by familiar feelings of disgust.
  The strain of looking at him hurts so I turn my eyes in an easier direction, doubt assailing me.
  Whatever the cause, the patient is assailed by the terrifying feeling of being out of control.
  When doubts assailed him, he got many scriptural reinforcements: ‘It is I, be not afraid - be not faithless, but believing.’
  He slid his arm around her and pulled her closer, closing his eyes under the feelings assailing him.
  Suddenly, unwanted mental images assailed her, forcing her to swallow hard and blink to keep from reacting.
  However, when he woke up the following morning he was assailed by what he thought was ‘an unusual resinous smell’.
  He started to get up and groaned aloud as all sorts of aches and pains assailed him.
  Terrors assailed him, tumbling over one another.
  New emotions assailed her so strongly she dropped to her knees with a moan.
  Suddenly, she was assailed with a wave of dizziness.
  We believe, though we are constantly assailed with doubt.
  Synonyms
  trouble, disturb, worry, plague, beset, torture, torment, rack, bedevil, nag, vex, harass, pester, dog
2. 1.2 Criticize (someone) strongly.
  强烈地批评
  Example sentencesExamples
  That statement assailed his position against abortion, contraception, sterilization, women's rights, divorce, stem cell research and gay rights.
  Beyond the forces of sheer entertainment, the director doesn't pull punches in his assailing the church.
  Critics have assailed the law since its inception.
  The book sold well and rapidly became fashionable, but was assailed in various critical pamphlets for length, tedium, and doubtful morality.
  Moving with precise coordination, the Arbiters pounced upon their prey, assailing him with stinging strikes of their daggers.
  It also assails the ideas of size and ingenuity, and, significantly, calls for full corporate compliance with a growing body of state regulation.
  Before the last elections, lawmakers of both parties were on their hind legs assailing these traitors, promising action!
  The energetic outsiders were true-blue conservatives who assailed the old guard and occasionally defeated their incumbents in primaries or as third-party challengers.
  The red-baiting demagogue who publicly made wild, unsubstantiated charges assailing victims' patriotism proved no match for the fact-checking investigative reporter.
  I didn't expect Tim to actually like the show (since he usually assails everything I watch with a sort of good-humoured mockery), but he'd sit down and watch it with me and even ask me to tape it when he had to go out.
  He assails the flow of private money into campaigns; he sides with portions of the corporate political agenda.
  Although the open admissions policy was weakened, its critics continued to assail it.
  Critics have assailed the lack of political leadership in all this.
  Critics assailed the commission, as well as a number of state and local organizations, for commercializing centennial activities.
  At a time when the Government is assailed by criticism and controversy, and when the Prime Minister's reputation is under such continuous attack, one would expect the opposition to be riding on a wave of success.
  Twelve percentage points behind in the polls, assailed by the left of his party for being too strident in reforming the welfare state, and with virtually every leader of industry set against him, things are looking up.
  The film succeeds a little, if without imagination, in assailing the assumptions and hypocrisy of privileged white folks, but the film indulges its own presuppositions.
  Why take risks, when the very name of the opera secures sold-out performances, assuming the critics don't assail it, or the conservative crowds don't shun it?
  I also conveyed our deep regret over the tendency of some Australian officials to continue to defy the policies by assailing the policies of other countries.
  Synonyms
  criticize, censure, attack, condemn, castigate, chastise, berate, lambaste, lash, pillory, find fault with, abuse, revile, give someone a bad press

Origin

Middle English: from Old French asaill-, stressed stem of asalir, from medieval Latin assalire, from Latin assilire, from ad- ‘to’ + salire ‘to leap’; compare with assault.

单词	assail
释义	Definition of assail in English: assail verbəˈseɪləˈseɪl [with object] 1Make a concerted or violent attack on. （协同，猛烈）攻击，袭击 the Scots army assailed Edward's army from the rear 苏格兰人从背后向爱德华的军队发起了猛烈进攻。 Example sentencesExamples The two of them are seemingly set on assailing the South African population on as many fronts as possible. This was a particularly risky means of concluding a siege as the attackers using ladders would be continually assailed from above on their climb up the walls. They approached warily, as though the food might leap up and assail their gullets violently. The sea does not split, nor does the earth swallow up the terrorists who assail us every day. The player is armed with a gun - most fortunately, because he is being assailed by a seemingly unending succession of zombies. As one historian wrote, ‘All forms of property were assailed, all signs of wealth and privilege were attacked.’ Only then would the Assault Transports assail the station with their mere 250 Marines. So the same Opposition that's assailing the Government for not dealing with crime would go ballistic if they found out that the Minister and his men were using unorthodox methods to rid us of the devils in the society. They spread hatred for us with a psychotic mass murderer and then they assailed the capital and when we moved to accost them they mysteriously withdrew. The crowd became angry and quickly began assailing the police. Yet her next note spoke of storms assailing the cottage and turbulence of fears and loneliness. On Fifth and Sixth Avenues, cutting the length of Manhattan, are gauntlets of flag-sellers assailing vehicles at every stop light. To attack the first is not to assail the last - said Charlotte Bronte, English novelist Knowing that his brother is frail, and more suited to school than to the front, he assails the train that is destined to take his sibling to the front lines. The wind is blustering through the trees outside, and every so often assails the outside walls of my house as if testing their fortitude. He is quickly running out of excuses as to why his ministry has failed to make a dent in the plethora of criminal activity assailing the country. Synonyms attack, assault, make an assault on, launch an attack on, pounce on, set upon, set about, launch oneself at, weigh into, fly at, let fly at, turn on, round on, lash out at, hit out at, beset, belabour, fall on, accost, mug, charge, rush, storm, besiege informal lay into, tear into, lace into, sail into, pitch into, get stuck into, wade into, let someone have it, beat up, jump British informal have a go at North American informal light into 1.1 (of an unpleasant feeling or physical sensation) come upon (someone) suddenly and strongly. （不愉快的情感或身体感觉）突然猛烈地袭向 she was assailed by doubts and regrets 疑惑和悔恨突然涌向她的心头。 Example sentencesExamples Whatever the cause, the patient is assailed by the terrifying feeling of being out of control. As you finally ascend the topmost mast, a faint vertigo assails you, but the adrenaline is buzzing. However, when he woke up the following morning he was assailed by what he thought was ‘an unusual resinous smell’. When doubts assailed him, he got many scriptural reinforcements: ‘It is I, be not afraid - be not faithless, but believing.’ We believe, though we are constantly assailed with doubt. New emotions assailed her so strongly she dropped to her knees with a moan. Suddenly, she was assailed with a wave of dizziness. I remember the feelings that assailed me when I heard about the crash, even before the humanising details emerged - the names, the ages, the family circumstances. For example, over a good fifty yards of my walk to the station today I was assailed by an unbelievably strong smell… of Parmesan. Suddenly I was assailed by overwhelming apprehension. Beware of any impulses that assail you. As the old patterns die in their minds and the new ones begin to take shape, people are assailed by self-doubt and misgivings about their leaders. The strain of looking at him hurts so I turn my eyes in an easier direction, doubt assailing me. Terrors assailed him, tumbling over one another. Ringing bells, whirring motors and flickering lights assailed the senses as one entered the darkened gallery from the street. Suddenly, unwanted mental images assailed her, forcing her to swallow hard and blink to keep from reacting. He slid his arm around her and pulled her closer, closing his eyes under the feelings assailing him. As I visited old haunts I was once again assailed by familiar feelings of disgust. Mixed feelings could assail you in relation to love. He started to get up and groaned aloud as all sorts of aches and pains assailed him. Synonyms trouble, disturb, worry, plague, beset, torture, torment, rack, bedevil, nag, vex, harass, pester, dog be prey to, be the victim of 1.2 Criticize strongly. 强烈地批评 he assailed a group of editors for their alleged excesses Example sentencesExamples Critics have assailed the law since its inception. Twelve percentage points behind in the polls, assailed by the left of his party for being too strident in reforming the welfare state, and with virtually every leader of industry set against him, things are looking up. Critics have assailed the lack of political leadership in all this. At a time when the Government is assailed by criticism and controversy, and when the Prime Minister's reputation is under such continuous attack, one would expect the opposition to be riding on a wave of success. Before the last elections, lawmakers of both parties were on their hind legs assailing these traitors, promising action! That statement assailed his position against abortion, contraception, sterilization, women's rights, divorce, stem cell research and gay rights. He assails the flow of private money into campaigns; he sides with portions of the corporate political agenda. Why take risks, when the very name of the opera secures sold-out performances, assuming the critics don't assail it, or the conservative crowds don't shun it? Although the open admissions policy was weakened, its critics continued to assail it. The energetic outsiders were true-blue conservatives who assailed the old guard and occasionally defeated their incumbents in primaries or as third-party challengers. The red-baiting demagogue who publicly made wild, unsubstantiated charges assailing victims' patriotism proved no match for the fact-checking investigative reporter. Critics assailed the commission, as well as a number of state and local organizations, for commercializing centennial activities. The book sold well and rapidly became fashionable, but was assailed in various critical pamphlets for length, tedium, and doubtful morality. I also conveyed our deep regret over the tendency of some Australian officials to continue to defy the policies by assailing the policies of other countries. It also assails the ideas of size and ingenuity, and, significantly, calls for full corporate compliance with a growing body of state regulation. Beyond the forces of sheer entertainment, the director doesn't pull punches in his assailing the church. Moving with precise coordination, the Arbiters pounced upon their prey, assailing him with stinging strikes of their daggers. The film succeeds a little, if without imagination, in assailing the assumptions and hypocrisy of privileged white folks, but the film indulges its own presuppositions. I didn't expect Tim to actually like the show (since he usually assails everything I watch with a sort of good-humoured mockery), but he'd sit down and watch it with me and even ask me to tape it when he had to go out. Synonyms criticize, censure, attack, condemn, castigate, chastise, berate, lambaste, lash, pillory, find fault with, abuse, revile, give someone a bad press informal knock, slam, hammer, lay into, give someone a roasting, cane, blast, give someone hell, bite someone's head off, jump down someone's throat British informal slate, slag off, monster North American informal pummel, cut up Australian/New Zealand informal bag dated rate archaic slash rare excoriate, objurgate, reprehend Derivatives assailable adjectiveəˈseɪləb(ə)ləˈseɪləb(ə)l He looked alien, almost other worldly - and so desperately assailable. Example sentencesExamples None had the training or experience to deal with a battlefield dominated by machine guns and artillery - a battlefield, which offered no assailable flanks as their soldiers dug in to escape the fury of mass industrial warfare. The learned trial judge, as was his province, made those findings, and it is my submission that those findings are not assailable. And taste is now a far weaker, more assailable notion than it was in the late eighteenth century. So, on any test of scrutiny or deference, there is no arguable reason for suggesting that this point of the claimant makes the determination assailable. Origin Middle English: from Old French asaill-, stressed stem of asalir, from medieval Latin assalire, from Latin assilire, from ad- 'to' + salire 'to leap'; compare with assault. salient from mid 16th century: This was first used as a heraldic term meaning ‘leaping’. It comes from Latin salire ‘to leap’. The sense ‘outstanding, significant’ as in salient point is found from the mid 19th century. Salire is behind many other English words including assail and assault (Middle English) ‘jumping on’ people; exult (late 16th century) ‘jump up’; insult; and result (Late Middle English) originally meaning ‘to jump back’. Salacious (mid 17th century) ‘undue interest in sexual matters’ is based on Latin salax, from salire. Its basic sense is ‘fond of leaping’, but as the word was used of stud animals it came to mean ‘lustful’. From the French form of salire come to sally out (mid 16th century) and sauté (early 19th century). Rhymes ail, ale, avail, bail, bale, bewail, brail, Braille, chain mail, countervail, curtail, dale, downscale, drail, dwale, entail, exhale, fail, faille, flail, frail, Gael, Gail, gale, Grail, grisaille, hail, hale, impale, jail, kale, mail, male, webmail, nonpareil, outsail, pail, pale, quail, rail, sail, sale, sangrail, scale, shale, snail, stale, swale, tail, tale, they'll, trail, upscale, vail, vale, veil, surveil, wail, wale, whale, Yale Definition of assail in US English: assail verbəˈseɪləˈsāl [with object] 1Make a concerted or violent attack on. （协同，猛烈）攻击，袭击 the Scots army assailed Edward's army from the rear 苏格兰人从背后向爱德华的军队发起了猛烈进攻。 Example sentencesExamples They approached warily, as though the food might leap up and assail their gullets violently. As one historian wrote, ‘All forms of property were assailed, all signs of wealth and privilege were attacked.’ The two of them are seemingly set on assailing the South African population on as many fronts as possible. This was a particularly risky means of concluding a siege as the attackers using ladders would be continually assailed from above on their climb up the walls. The player is armed with a gun - most fortunately, because he is being assailed by a seemingly unending succession of zombies. The wind is blustering through the trees outside, and every so often assails the outside walls of my house as if testing their fortitude. So the same Opposition that's assailing the Government for not dealing with crime would go ballistic if they found out that the Minister and his men were using unorthodox methods to rid us of the devils in the society. They spread hatred for us with a psychotic mass murderer and then they assailed the capital and when we moved to accost them they mysteriously withdrew. Knowing that his brother is frail, and more suited to school than to the front, he assails the train that is destined to take his sibling to the front lines. The crowd became angry and quickly began assailing the police. On Fifth and Sixth Avenues, cutting the length of Manhattan, are gauntlets of flag-sellers assailing vehicles at every stop light. The sea does not split, nor does the earth swallow up the terrorists who assail us every day. He is quickly running out of excuses as to why his ministry has failed to make a dent in the plethora of criminal activity assailing the country. To attack the first is not to assail the last - said Charlotte Bronte, English novelist Yet her next note spoke of storms assailing the cottage and turbulence of fears and loneliness. Only then would the Assault Transports assail the station with their mere 250 Marines. Synonyms attack, assault, make an assault on, launch an attack on, pounce on, set upon, set about, launch oneself at, weigh into, fly at, let fly at, turn on, round on, lash out at, hit out at, beset, belabour, fall on, accost, mug, charge, rush, storm, besiege 1.1usually be assailed (of an unpleasant feeling or physical sensation) come upon (someone) suddenly and strongly. （不愉快的情感或身体感觉）突然猛烈地袭向 she was assailed by doubts and regrets 疑惑和悔恨突然涌向她的心头。 Example sentencesExamples For example, over a good fifty yards of my walk to the station today I was assailed by an unbelievably strong smell… of Parmesan. Suddenly I was assailed by overwhelming apprehension. Mixed feelings could assail you in relation to love. As the old patterns die in their minds and the new ones begin to take shape, people are assailed by self-doubt and misgivings about their leaders. I remember the feelings that assailed me when I heard about the crash, even before the humanising details emerged - the names, the ages, the family circumstances. As you finally ascend the topmost mast, a faint vertigo assails you, but the adrenaline is buzzing. Ringing bells, whirring motors and flickering lights assailed the senses as one entered the darkened gallery from the street. Beware of any impulses that assail you. As I visited old haunts I was once again assailed by familiar feelings of disgust. The strain of looking at him hurts so I turn my eyes in an easier direction, doubt assailing me. Whatever the cause, the patient is assailed by the terrifying feeling of being out of control. When doubts assailed him, he got many scriptural reinforcements: ‘It is I, be not afraid - be not faithless, but believing.’ He slid his arm around her and pulled her closer, closing his eyes under the feelings assailing him. Suddenly, unwanted mental images assailed her, forcing her to swallow hard and blink to keep from reacting. However, when he woke up the following morning he was assailed by what he thought was ‘an unusual resinous smell’. He started to get up and groaned aloud as all sorts of aches and pains assailed him. Terrors assailed him, tumbling over one another. New emotions assailed her so strongly she dropped to her knees with a moan. Suddenly, she was assailed with a wave of dizziness. We believe, though we are constantly assailed with doubt. Synonyms trouble, disturb, worry, plague, beset, torture, torment, rack, bedevil, nag, vex, harass, pester, dog 1.2 Criticize (someone) strongly. 强烈地批评 Example sentencesExamples That statement assailed his position against abortion, contraception, sterilization, women's rights, divorce, stem cell research and gay rights. Beyond the forces of sheer entertainment, the director doesn't pull punches in his assailing the church. Critics have assailed the law since its inception. The book sold well and rapidly became fashionable, but was assailed in various critical pamphlets for length, tedium, and doubtful morality. Moving with precise coordination, the Arbiters pounced upon their prey, assailing him with stinging strikes of their daggers. It also assails the ideas of size and ingenuity, and, significantly, calls for full corporate compliance with a growing body of state regulation. Before the last elections, lawmakers of both parties were on their hind legs assailing these traitors, promising action! The energetic outsiders were true-blue conservatives who assailed the old guard and occasionally defeated their incumbents in primaries or as third-party challengers. The red-baiting demagogue who publicly made wild, unsubstantiated charges assailing victims' patriotism proved no match for the fact-checking investigative reporter. I didn't expect Tim to actually like the show (since he usually assails everything I watch with a sort of good-humoured mockery), but he'd sit down and watch it with me and even ask me to tape it when he had to go out. He assails the flow of private money into campaigns; he sides with portions of the corporate political agenda. Although the open admissions policy was weakened, its critics continued to assail it. Critics have assailed the lack of political leadership in all this. Critics assailed the commission, as well as a number of state and local organizations, for commercializing centennial activities. At a time when the Government is assailed by criticism and controversy, and when the Prime Minister's reputation is under such continuous attack, one would expect the opposition to be riding on a wave of success. Twelve percentage points behind in the polls, assailed by the left of his party for being too strident in reforming the welfare state, and with virtually every leader of industry set against him, things are looking up. The film succeeds a little, if without imagination, in assailing the assumptions and hypocrisy of privileged white folks, but the film indulges its own presuppositions. Why take risks, when the very name of the opera secures sold-out performances, assuming the critics don't assail it, or the conservative crowds don't shun it? I also conveyed our deep regret over the tendency of some Australian officials to continue to defy the policies by assailing the policies of other countries. Synonyms criticize, censure, attack, condemn, castigate, chastise, berate, lambaste, lash, pillory, find fault with, abuse, revile, give someone a bad press Origin Middle English: from Old French asaill-, stressed stem of asalir, from medieval Latin assalire, from Latin assilire, from ad- ‘to’ + salire ‘to leap’; compare with assault.
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