Crossword clues for assaulting
assaulting
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Assault \As*sault"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Assaulted; p. pr. & vb. n. Assaulting.] [From Assault, n.: cf. OF. assaulter, LL. assaltare.]
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To make an assault upon, as by a sudden rush of armed men; to attack with unlawful or insulting physical violence or menaces.
Insnared, assaulted, overcome, led bound.
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To attack with moral means, or with a view of producing moral effects; to attack by words, arguments, or unfriendly measures; to assail; as, to assault a reputation or an administration.
Before the gates, the cries of babes newborn, . . . Assault his ears.
--Dryden.Note: In the latter sense, assail is more common.
Syn: To attack; assail; invade; encounter; storm; charge. See Attack.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of assault English)
Usage examples of "assaulting".
An enthusiast, named Dorotheus, alarmed the fears, and restored the confidence, of the emperor, by a prophetic assurance, that the German heretic, after assaulting the gate of Blachernes, would be made a signal example of the divine vengeance.
On the opposite side of a narrow valley, through which runs Beaver Dam Creek, rises a bold, almost precipitous, bluff, and the road which the Confederates were compelled to take bends abruptly to the right when near the stream, thus exposing the flank of the assaulting party to a fire from the bluff.
This assault of the enemy had been of so determined a character, that General Lee, in order to relieve his left, had directed Hood and Evans, near his centre, to advance and attack the left of the assaulting column.
That the whole plan completely failed was mainly due, it would seem, to the inconsiderable numbers of the assaulting columns.
A rapist-murderer starts out assaulting and strangling a prostitute, leaving her body in the alley where the crime took place.
He admitted to breaking into four hundred apartments and to assaulting some three hundred women in the four-state area.
Many of those behind stripped off their armour and swam across the Haven, supported by some Dutch troops who had been told off to follow the assaulting party.