assailed 的定义
- to attack vigorously or violently; assault.
- to attack with arguments, criticism, ridicule, abuse, etc.: to assail one's opponent with slander.
- to undertake with the purpose of mastering: He assailed his studies with new determination.
- to impinge upon; make an impact on; beset: His mind was assailed by conflicting arguments. The light assailed their eyes.
assailed 近义词
attack, usually with words
更多assailed例句
- Back in February, he assailed long-term care workers who declined the vaccine.
- As warming mercilessly assailed them, I clung to the knowledge that the glacier I knew best remained the exception.
- Cordell Hull, the congressman known as the “father” of the income tax, assailed the decision, according to scholar Marjorie Kornhauser.
- Certainly, the past year alone has assailed each of us with the fear of covid infection, loneliness, the death of loved ones and sickening instances of racial and ethnic injustice.
- Ahead of the vote, GOP lawmakers assailed the legislation as a defund-the-police effort.
- Politics seems to assail Carvalho, forcing him to take up former cudgels and defend his corner.
- The only group that it was okay to assail, she says, was liberals.
- Days later, Al Gore suddenly surfaced after months of silence to assail President Obama for his failure to lead on climate change.
- She felt the temptation assail her, as of late it had been assailing her faintly, to explore this territory.
- The bishop and his episcopals can not be hair-brained enough to seek to restore old conditions and assail our liberty.
- They did not understand this manouvre, and supposed it to signify that the lieutenant did not deem it prudent to assail them.
- Without waiting for them to assail him, the youth dashed forward like a panther at bay.
- If he wheeled about to assail the buck he was without a single weapon, while the Sioux was doubly armed.