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as·sail       (ə-sāl')  Pronunciation Key 
tr.v.   as·sailed, as·sail·ing, as·sails
  1. To attack with or as if with violent blows; assault.
  2. To attack verbally, as with ridicule or censure. See Synonyms at attack.
  3. To trouble; beset: was assailed by doubts.


[Middle English assailen, from Old French asalir, asaill-, from Vulgar Latin *assalīre, variant of Latin assilīre, to jump on : ad-, onto; see ad- + salīre, to jump; see sel- in Indo-European roots.]

as·sail'a·ble adj., as·sail'a·bil'i·ty n., as·sail'er n., as·sail'ment n.
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