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单词 assault
释义 assault
 —assaultable,  adj.   —assaulter,  n.  
 /euh sawlt"/,  n.  
  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.  Mil.   the stage of close combat in an attack.
  4. rape1.
  v.t.  
  5. to make an assault upon; attack; assail.
 [1200-50; ME asaut < OF < ML assaltus (r. L assultus), equiv. to L as- AS- + saltus a leap (sal(ire) to leap + -tus suffix of v. action)]
 Syn. 1. onset, charge; invasion, aggression. 5. See attack.
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