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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024as•sault /əˈsɔlt/USA pronunciation n. - a sudden violent attack;
onslaught:[countable]launched an assault on the enemy stronghold. - LawLaw. an unlawful physical attack upon another, esp. an attempt or threat to do bodily harm: [countable]Several assaults with deadly weapons.[uncountable]convicted of assault.
- Law[countable] rape1 (defs. 1, 2).
v. [~ + object] - to make an assault upon:The marines assaulted the hilltop.
- to attack unlawfully;
attempt to do bodily harm to another:They assaulted the police officers. - Lawrape1 (def. 6).
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024as•sault (ə sôlt′),USA pronunciation n. - a sudden, violent attack;
onslaught:an assault on tradition. - Lawan 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. - Militarythe stage of close combat in an attack.
- rape1.
v.t. - to make an assault upon;
attack;
assail.
- Medieval Latin assaltus (replacing Latin assultus), equivalent. to Latin as- as- + saltus a leap (sal(īre) to leap + -tus suffix of verb, verbal action)
- Old French
- Middle English asaut 1200–50
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged onset, charge; invasion, aggression.
- 5.See corresponding entry in Unabridged See attack.
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