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assailing

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

袭击,攻击性,攻击性的,攻击型

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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

  • Giuliani assailed mail-in voting, calling it “outrageous” and “very suspicious,” even though Pennsylvania’s mail-in balloting was approved by a Republican state legislative majority in 2019.

  • The party’s official 2020 platform shrunk to a brief resolution that assailed the news media and heaped praise on the president.

  • But the critics assailing her ‘sick and twisted tale’ have clearly never been artists.

  • Assailing her at every turn has been her rapacious political rival, Tony Abbott.

  • He spends his time assailing big government as akin to Big Brother depriving people of their rights—a theme that plays well here.

  • She felt the temptation assail her, as of late it had been assailing her faintly, to explore this territory.

  • But Richard would cross himself and mutter prayers, calling on every saint to fight against the assailing devils.

  • But those who expected the Blackfeet to flee in panic when they observed the doubling of the assailing forces, were much mistaken.

  • All the while the Indians were lying in wait and assailing all who ventured beyond the fortifications of the camp.

  • He shrank from assailing the Hofcavalier until he should have won the others, knowing well the obstinacy of her resolution.

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