assailant
/əˈseɪl(ə)nt
/noun
A person who physically attacks another: the police have no firm leads about the identity of his assailant...
- The assailants fled after the attack, for which no militant group has claimed responsibility.
- It is common in knife attacks for such assailants to strike quickly and repeatedly.
- As I physically wrenched her assailant away from her, my sign was also grabbed and ripped up.
Synonyms
attacker, mugger
rare assaulter
Rhymes
- crystallographically
- crystallographic axis
- crystallographist
- crystallography
- crystallogy
- crystalloid
- crystallology
- crystallomagnetic
- crystallomancy
- crystallometry
- crystallotype
- crystalluria
- crystally
- crystal meth
- Szent-Györgyi, Albert von
- Szilard, Leo
- SZL
- szmolnokite
- szomolnikite
- szomolnokite
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- São Vincente