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assailant

/uh-sey-luhnt/US // əˈseɪ lənt //UK // (əˈseɪlənt) //

袭击者,攻击者,袭人,歹徒

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who attacks.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : Archaic. assailing; attacking; hostile.

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Examples

  • Popkin said the deputy appears to have unsuccessfully tried to use his Taser to stop the assailant, who continued to attack with the piece of wood.

  • Karau ended up representing himself in General District Court — and the alleged assailant was convicted of assault.

  • The assailants belonged to the Front de Libération du Québec, or FLQ, a militant group that called for the independence of their Francophone province in eastern Canada.

  • Video of the encounter soon spread on the Internet, prompting people to speculate online about the alleged assailant’s identity.

  • Noble left his vehicle and the assailant began chasing him in broad daylight, while continuing to shoot at him.

  • Somebody yanks Chan and elbows him and he is momentarily distracted trying to apprehend his assailant.

  • The rationale in those cases, he said, is that DNA should be used to identify the assailant.

  • Thankfully, Linda was not injured and the assailant, a white male, was arrested.

  • My assailant will remain unpunished, and life on this campus will continue its course as if nothing had happened.

  • There was that time Nancy Kerrigan was whacked in the knee by a baton-wielding assailant in 1994.

  • In the distance he saw his late assailant running hard; the coach had disappeared.

  • So long as he had to deal with a single assailant he saw no need to move from so excellent a position.

  • If Mr. Adams fell where he was struck, the assailant must have had that door directly before him.

  • Now if he saw the tragedy from this point, he saw it over the assailant's shoulder, instead of face to face.

  • A second curse, and the assailant ghost-like was gliding amongst the orchard trees.