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as⋅sault

  [uh-sawlt]
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–noun
1. a sudden, violent attack; onslaught: an assault on tradition.
2. 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.
3. Military. the stage of close combat in an attack.
4. rape 1 .
–verb (used with object)
5. to make an assault upon; attack; assail.
Origin:
1200–50; ME asaut < OF < ML assaltus (r. L assultus), equiv. to L as- as- + saltus a leap (sal(īre) to leap + -tus suffix of v. action)

Related forms:
as⋅sault⋅a⋅ble, adjective
as⋅sault⋅er, noun

Synonyms:
1. onset, charge; invasion, aggression. 5. See attack.
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as·sault   (ə-sôlt')   
n.  

  1. A violent physical or verbal attack.

    1. A military attack, such as one launched against a fortified area or place.

    2. The concluding stage of an attack in which close combat occurs with the enemy.

    3. An unlawful threat or attempt to do bodily injury to another.

    4. The act or an instance of unlawfully threatening or attempting to injure another.

    5. Law Sexual assault.

    6. The crime of rape.

  3. Law

    1. An unlawful threat or attempt to do bodily injury to another.

    2. The act or an instance of unlawfully threatening or attempting to injure another.

    3. Law Sexual assault.

    4. The crime of rape.

    1. Law Sexual assault.

    2. The crime of rape.

v.   as·sault·ed, as·sault·ing, as·saults

v.   tr.

  1. To make an assault upon; attack. See Synonyms at attack.

  2. To rape.

v.   intr.
To make an assault.

[Middle English assaut, from Old French, from Vulgar Latin *assaltus, variant of Latin assultus, from past participle of assilīre, to jump on; see assail.]
as·sault'er n.
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Word Origin & History

assault  (n.)
1297, from O.Fr. asaut, from V.L. *adsaltus "attack, assault," a derivation of *adsalire (see assail). The verb is from c.1450.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Main Entry: 2assault
Function: transitive verb
: to make an assault on; specifically : to subject to a sexual assault intransitive verb : to make an assault —as·sault·er noun —as·saul·tive /&-'sol-tiv/ adjective —as·saul·tive·ly adverb —as·saul·tive·ness noun
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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