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assailed

/uh-seyl/US // əˈseɪl //UK // (əˈseɪl) //

受到攻击的,受到攻击,遭到攻击的,遭到攻击

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : 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.

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Examples

  • 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.