Crossword clues for assailed
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Assail \As*sail"\ ([a^]s*s[=a]l"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Assailed (-s[=a]ld"); p. pr. & vb. n. Assailing.] [OE. assailen, asailen, OF. asaillir, assailler, F. assaillir; a (L. ad) + saillir to burst out, project, fr. L. salire to leap, spring; cf. L. assilire to leap or spring upon. See Sally.]
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To attack with violence, or in a vehement and hostile manner; to assault; to molest; as, to assail a man with blows; to assail a city with artillery.
No rude noise mine ears assailing.
--Cowper.No storm can now assail The charm he wears within.
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To encounter or meet purposely with the view of mastering, as an obstacle, difficulty, or the like.
The thorny wilds the woodmen fierce assail.
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To attack morally, or with a view to produce changes in the feelings, character, conduct, existing usages, institutions; to attack by words, hostile influence, etc.; as, to assail one with appeals, arguments, abuse, ridicule, and the like.
The papal authority . . . assailed.
--Hallam.They assailed him with keen invective; they assailed him with still keener irony.
--Macaulay.Syn: To attack; assault; invade; encounter; fall upon. See Attack.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: assail)
Usage examples of "assailed".
Wave after wave of nausea assailed him as his endowments were stripped.
The Invincible would not be able to replace any memories that Borenson had lost, or grant him surcease from the mind-numbing weariness that assailed him now.
Her stomach ached for want of food, but something more pernicious assailed her.
She knew that the single leaf was the source of this horrible dread that assailed her.
He had hastened his departure from Tor Doohan in part because of the rising sense of danger that assailed him to the south, the sense that he needed to attack swiftly.
A disorienting dizziness assailed him, so that he grasped the wall but could not tell which way was up or down.
As he drew near Carris, the sensation of illness that had assailed him ever since he'd begun to cross the blasted lands grew more potent.
Thence on a sudden a great army came into Beleriand and assailed King Thingol.
Then he assailed Tilion, sending spirits of shadow against him, and there was strife in Ilmen beneath the paths of the stars.
But the host of Morgoth, aroused by the tumult of Lam-moth and the light of the burning at Losgar, came through the passes of Ered Wethrin, the Mountains of Shadow, and assailed F?
But new strength of evil Men came up that Uldor had summoned and kept hidden in the eastern hills, and the host of Maedhros was assailed now on three sides, and it broke, and was scattered, and fled this way and that.
But the Naugrim made a circle about him when he assailed them, and even his mighty armour was not full proof against the blows of their great axes.
But now in the western battle Fingon and Turgon were assailed by a tide of foes thrice greater than all the force that was left to them.
There they were assailed by an Orc-band, such as now roamed often as nigh the fences of Doriath as they dared.
But the guard was aroused, and he was assailed, and fought his way out, receiving many wounds.