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assault

/uh-sawlt/US // əˈsɔlt //UK // (əˈsɔːlt) //

殴打,攻击,袭击,突击

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a sudden, violent attack; onslaught: an assault on tradition.
    • : Law. an unlawful physical attack upon another; an attempt or offer to do violence to another, with or without battery, as by holding a stone or club in a threatening manner.
    • : Military. the stage of close combat in an attack.
    • : rape.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to make an assault upon; attack; assail.

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Examples

  • At least two more women have since come forward with similar allegations of assault.

  • This can buy time for B and T cells from the adaptive immune system to multiply into an army that can deliver a more precise and devastating assault if one is needed.

  • Harvey Weinstein was fighting criminal charges for a pattern of behavior that included hotel room assaults.

  • The order called for a multi-agency assault on Section 230, involving the commerce and justice departments, the Federal Communications Commission, and the Federal Trade Commission.

  • California is a bright, shining example that you can build a humming engine of economic growth, even in a state that embraces relatively high taxes and progressive values—an unforgivable assault on conservative worldviews.

  • But damn, the music is catchy—a neo-soul aural assault of horns, electro swirls, yelps, funky basslines, and harmonized vocals.

  • Luckily, Tor was prepared for this sort of assault, and has built-in defenses to protect against it.

  • It was like a constant assault, an almost stupefying catalogue of mindless racial insult and injury.

  • For his tireless assault on evolutionary biology and downsizing the deity to fit within science, I give Meyer second place.

  • In their midst stands a soldier with the Lebanese armed forces in a red beret, sporting an assault rifle and an unblinking stare.

  • The case was an assault and battery that came off between two men named Brown and Henderson.

  • Pat Malone, you are fined five dollars for assault and battery on Mike Sweeney.

  • He made a violent assault against the nation of his enemies, and in the descent he destroyed the adversaries.

  • The imperialists under the duke of Bourbon, took Rome by assault and plundered it.

  • Edwin had to brace himself again, for an assault upon the fastness of the stationmaster.