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assault

English

  1. 🔊 a threatened or attempted physical attack by someone who appears to be able to cause bodily harm if not stopped
  2. 🔊 close fighting during the culmination of a military attack
  3. 🔊 thoroughbred that won the triple crown in 1946
  4. 🔊 the crime of forcing a person to submit to sexual intercourse against his or her will
  5. 🔊 attack someone physically or emotionally
    “The mugger assaulted the woman”
  6. 🔊 force (someone) to have sex against their will
    “The woman was raped on her way home at night”
  7. 🔊 attack in speech or writing
    “The editors of the left-leaning paper attacked the new House Speaker”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 atraco assault
  2. 🔊 agredir to assault, attack
  3. 🔊 asaltar to assault, to assail, to attack
  4. 🔊 expugnar to assault, storm, take by storm

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