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Exact Match:

assault

a threatened or attempted physical attack by someone who appears to be able to cause bodily harm if not stopped

close fighting during the culmination of a military attack

thoroughbred that won the triple crown in 1946

Synonyms:

• abuse,
• aggravated assault,
• aggression,
• ambush,
• amphibious attack,
• armed assault,
• assail,
• assailing,
• assailment,
• attack,
• banzai attack,
• barbarize,
• batter,
• battering,
• battery,
• bear,
• bear upon,
• beat up,
• beating,
• berating,
• beset,
• bitter words,
• blackening,
• blitz,
• blitzkrieg,
• boost,
• breakthrough,
• bruise,
• brutalize,
• buck,
• bull,
• bulldoze,
• bump,
• bump against,
• bunt,
• burn,
• bushwhack,
• butcher,
• butchery,
• butt,
• butt against,
• carry on,
• censure,
• charge,
• citation,
• come at,
• come down on,
• contumely,
• counterattack,
• counteroffensive,
• coup de main,
• crack down on,
• cram,
• crippling attack,
• crowd,
• dead set at,
• descend on,
• descend upon,
• descent on,
• destroy,
• diatribe,
• dig,
• disorderliness,
• diversion,
• diversionary attack,
• drive,
• elbow,
• execration,
• fall on,
• fall upon,
• flank attack,
• force,
• forcible seizure,
• frontal attack,
• gang up on,
• gas attack,
• go at,
• go for,
• go on,
• goad,
• hammer,
• hard words,
• harm,
• harry,
• have at,
• head-on attack,
• hit,
• hit like lightning,
• hold-up,
• hurtle,
• hustle,
• implication,
• impugnment,
• incrimination,
• inculpation,
• incursion,
• infiltration,
• invasion,
• invective,
• involvement,
• jab,
• jam,
• jawing,
• jeremiad,
• jog,
• joggle,
• jolt,
• jostle,
• jump,
• killing,
• land on,
• lay at,
• lay hands on,
• lay into,
• lay waste,
• laying waste,
• light into,
• lightning attack,
• lightning war,
• loot,
• looting,
• mass attack,
• massacre,
• maul,
• megadeath,
• molest,
• molestation,
• mug,
• mugging,
• nudge,
• obstreperousness,
• offense,
• offensive,
• onset,
• onslaught,
• overkill,
• panzer warfare,
• philippic,
• pile drive,
• pillage,
• pillaging,
• pitch into,
• poke,
• pounce upon,
• pound,
• press,
• prod,
• punch,
• push,
• rage,
• raid,
• ram,
• ram down,
• ramp,
• rampage,
• rant,
• rape,
• rating,
• rattle,
• rave,
• revilement,
• riot,
• rioting,
• roar,
• ruin,
• run,
• run against,
• run at,
• rush,
• sack,
• sacking,
• sail into,
• sally,
• savage,
• screed,
• set on,
• set upon,
• shake,
• shock tactics,
• shoulder,
• shove,
• slaughter,
• smite,
• sortie,
• sow chaos,
• sowing with salt,
• storm,
• stress,
• strike,
• surprise,
• swoop down on,
• take the offensive,
• tamp,
• tear,
• tear around,
• terrorize,
• thrust,
• tirade,
• tongue-lashing,
• unprovoked assault,
• unruliness,
• vandalize,
• vilification,
• violate,
• violation,
• vituperation,
• wade into,
• wreck