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assaulted

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

受攻击的,受攻击,遭袭击,受到攻击

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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

  • Not only had the iconic comedian sexually assaulted many, many women, Maher argued, “I never thought he was funny.”

  • “Officers had to go stop an elderly lady from being assaulted,” Sgt. Houston said.

  • That started to erode after the two officers were assaulted last week.

  • Two police officers had been assaulted in New York less than a week before the sitdown.

  • At least two other officers had been physically assaulted since the protests began.

  • They assaulted him with snowballs, pieces of ice, and whatever they could lay their hands upon.

  • Battle of Landshut; the Austrians assaulted and carried the town with great loss on both sides.

  • Valencia, in Spain, assaulted by the French under Moncey; they were repulsed with the loss of 1000 men.

  • I do not deny the attempt on Frick, but the accusation of having assaulted Leishman is not true.

  • He strongly suspected that the men who had assaulted Mr Heathcote were in some way concerned in the disappearance of his son.