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Assail

Assail meaning

To attack with harsh words or violent force (also figuratively).

Example sentences (16)

Besides, if the Producer and hosts of It’s Showtime have any grounds to assail the MTRCB resolution, then they can do so at the proper forum under the regular administrative procedures.

Once again the efforts to assail and attack the rights of Caymanian landowners are stronger than ever.

The president did not hesitate to use the country’s birthday as an occasion to assail segments of the country that do not support him.

Nigerians will never cease to shock and just when you think you have heard or seen it all, from the blues they will assail you with something more ridiculous than the previous one.

Trump is the first president since the Great Depression to assail globalisation, which benefits corporate America with an overwhelming 56 percent share of the market value of the world’s 500 biggest companies.

But Fox, perhaps in its efforts to shield the shortcomings and corrupt behavior of Republicans (including President Donald Trump) from the full light of day, has continued to assail the Clintons for the last 20 years.

But unlike numerous religious groups, they did not assail the Trump administration.

Conservatives who assail universities that judge whites and Asians by one standard, and blacks and Hispanics by another, run the risk of popping up in social media in connection with the KKK.

Russia was quick to assail what it deemed an “anti-Russian” nuclear strategy.

Top Democrats there assail the overhaul as a debt-laden present to the wealthy, though their messaging has been a bit muddled by the revamp’s early returns.

Geoffrey refers to Hengist as a "man of experience and subtilty," and records that Hengist told Vortigern that Vortigern's enemies assail him from every quarter, and that few of Vortigern's subjects love him.

He senses the feast which nature puts forth to him, but is unable to take part in it and foresees the remorse which will assail him in the years to come when he will regret the youthful life that he never lived.

It shows a fine fearlessness in assailing the popular and mischievous sentimentalities and attractive and corroding falsehoods which few men dare assail.

Nirvāṇa is not the extinguishing of the person as some Western scholars have thought, but only the "extinguishing" (the literal meaning of nirvana) of the flames of greed, hatred, and delusion that assail a person's character.

Once the commanding general determined to assail the enemy, duty required Longstreet to comply with the vigor and thoroughness that had previously characterized his generalship.

The superhero would assail the mass of enemy troops, and when they gathered round to attack him the wizard would drop a fireball on the lot.