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noun crime of attacking sb ADJ. brutal, savage, vicious, violent | common (law) | aggravated (law), serious | alleged | attempted | indecent, physical, racial, sexual | police QUANT. series, wave VERB + ASSAULT carry out, commit assaults committed by teenagers | be the victim of, suffer ASSAULT + VERB happen, take place PREP. ~ against Better street lighting has helped reduce the number of assaults against women. | ~ on/upon PHRASES allegations of assault allegations of police assault on the boy | assault and battery (law)CRIME (for more verbs) military/verbal attack ADJ. all-out, direct, frontal, full-scale, major, massive After an all-out assault the village was captured by the enemy. | fresh, further | sustained She used the article to make a sustained assault on her former political allies. | successful | air, amphibious, ground air assaults by fighter planes | military | verbal QUANT. series VERB + ASSAULT carry out, launch (into), lead, make, mount Enemy troops launched an assault on the town. He launched into a verbal assault on tabloid journalism. | come under The factory came under assault from soldiers in the mountains | withstand The garrison was built to withstand assaults. ASSAULT + NOUN course They took part in a vigorous army assault course. | rifle | force PREP. under ~ Today these values are under assault. | ~ on a series of assaults on enemy targets, verb ADV. badly, brutally, savagely, seriously, violently | indecently, physically, sexually, verbally
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