Word Meanings - ASSAIL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

+ saillir to burst out, project, fr. L. salire to leap, 1. 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.

Additional info about word: ASSAIL

+ saillir to burst out, project, fr. L. salire to leap, 1. 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. Keble. 2. To encounter or meet purposely with the view of mastering, as an obstacle, difficulty, or the like. The thorny wilds the woodmen fierce assail. Pope. 3. 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ASSAIL)

• Invade
• Attack
• assault
• encroach
• occupy
• assail
• violate
• encroach upon
• intrude upon
• infringe upon
• trench upon

Related words: (words related to ASSAIL)

• ENCROACHER
  One who by gradual steps enters on, and takes possession of, what is not his own.
• ASSAILMENT
  The act or power of assailing; attack; assault. His most frequent assailment was the headache. Johnson.
• TRENCH-PLOW; TRENCH-PLOUGH
  To plow with deep furrows, for the purpose of loosening the land to a greater depth than usual.
• ASSAILER
  One who assails.
• ASSAULTABLE
  Capable of being assaulted.
• INVADE
  1. To go into or upon; to pass within the confines of; to enter; -- used of forcible or rude ingress. Which becomes a body, and doth then invade The state of life, out of the grisly shade. Spenser. 2. To enter with hostile intentions; to enter
• TRENCHER
  1. One who trenches; esp., one who cuts or digs ditches. 2. A large wooden plate or platter, as for table use. 3. The table; hence, the pleasures of the table; food. It could be no ordinary declension of nature that could bring some men, after
• INFRINGER
  One who infringes or violates; a violator. Strype.
• INVADER
  One who invades; an assailant; an encroacher; an intruder.
• TRENCH
  To fortify by cutting a ditch, and raising a rampart or breastwork with the earth thrown out of the ditch; to intrench. Pope. No more shall trenching war channel her fields. Shak. 3. To cut furrows or ditches in; as, to trench land for the purpose
• TRENCHANT
  1. Fitted to trench or cut; gutting; sharp. " Trenchant was the blade." Chaucer. 2. Fig.: Keen; biting; severe; as, trenchant wit.
• ASSAILANT
  Assailing; attacking. Milton.
• INFRINGE
  1. To break; to violate; to transgress; to neglect to fulfill or obey; as, to infringe a law or contract. If the first that did the edict infringe, Had answered for his deed. Shak. The peace . . . was infringed by Appius Claudius. Golding. 2. To
• ASSAULT
  An apparently violent attempt, or willful offer with force or violence, to do hurt to another; an attempt or offer to beat another, accompanied by a degree of violence, but without touching his person, as by lifting the fist, or a cane,
• ATTACK
  1. To fall upon with force; to assail, as with force and arms; to assault. "Attack their lines." Dryden. 2. To assail with unfriendly speech or writing; to begin a controversy with; to attempt to overthrow or bring into disrepute, by criticism
• VIOLATE
  1. To treat in a violent manner; to abuse. His wife Boadicea violated with stripes, his daughters with rape. Milton. 2. To do violence to, as to anything that should be held sacred or respected; to profane; to desecrate; to break forcibly;
• TRENCHAND
  Trenchant. Spenser.
• OCCUPY
  1. To take or hold possession of; to hold or keep for use; to possess. Woe occupieth the fine of our gladness. Chaucer. The better apartments were already occupied. W. Irving 2. To hold, or fill, the dimensions of; to take up the room or space
• TRENCHANTLY
  In a trenchant, or sharp, manner; sharply; severely.
• TRENCHMORE
  A kind of lively dance of a rude, boisterous character. Also, music in triple time appropriate to the dance. All the windows in the town dance new trenchmore. Beau. & Fl.
• INTRENCHANT
  Not to be gashed or marked with furrows. As easy mayest thou the intrenchant air With thy keen sword impress, as make me bleed. Shak.
• RETRENCH
  To furnish with a retrenchment; as, to retrench bastions. Syn. -- To lesen; diminish; curtail; abridge. (more info) 1. To cut off; to pare away. Thy exuberant parts retrench. Denham. 2. To lessen; to abridge; to curtail; as, to retrench
• UNTRENCHED
  Being without trenches; whole; intact.
• INVIOLATE; INVIOLATED
  1. Not violated; uninjured; unhurt; unbroken. His fortune of arms was still inviolate. Bacon. 2. Not corrupted, defiled, or profaned; chaste; pure. "Inviolate truth." Denham. There chaste Alceste lives inviolate. Spenser.