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— English words —

• assault n. A violent onset or attack with physical means, for example blows, weapons, etc.
• assault n. A violent verbal attack, for example with insults, criticism, and the like.
• assault n. (Criminal law) An attempt to commit battery: a violent attempt, or willful effort with force or violence…
• assault n. (Singular only, law) The crime whose action is such an attempt.
• assault n. (Tort law) An act that causes someone to apprehend imminent bodily harm (such as brandishing a weapon).
• assault n. (Singular only, law) The tort whose action is such an act.
• assault n. (Fencing) A non-competitive combat between two fencers.
• assault v. (Transitive) To attack, physically or figuratively; to assail.
• assault v. (Transitive) To threaten or harass. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

— Foreign word, define in English —

• Middle french
  • assault n. (Chiefly military) assault; attack.

— English word, defined in German —

• assault V. Angreifen, attackieren.

— English words, defined in French —

• assault n. Assaut, attaque, accès.
• assault n. Attentat.
• assault n. (Droit) Agression.
• assault n. (Droit) (Au singulier) Tentative d’agression.
• assault v. Assaillir.

— English words, defined in Spanish —

• assault s. Asalto, ataque.
• assault v. Asaltar, atacar.

— English word, defined in Italian —

• assault s. Assalto.

69 English words from 10 English definitions

act action add and and␣the␣like apprehend assail assault attack attempt battery between blows bodily brandishing Can causes Chiefly combat commit competitive crime Criminal Criminal␣law criticism effort etc example fencers Fencing figuratively for force for␣example harass harm imminent insults law like means military non non-competitive only onset physical physically sense Singular someone such such␣as that the this threaten tort Tort␣law Transitive two verbal violence violent weapon weapons whose willful with

3 English words from 9 foreign definitions

Attentat Droit Tentative

13 foreign words from 9 foreign definitions

accès agression Angreifen Asaltar Asalto Assaillir Assalto Assaut atacar ataque attackieren attaque singulier

22 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

assaults assaulted assaultee assaulter assaultees assaulters assaultest assaulteth assaulting assaultive assaultable assaultives assaultively assault␣rifle assault␣at␣arms assault␣course assault␣rifles assault␣weapon assault␣courses assaultiveness assault␣weapons assault␣and␣battery

14 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

unassaulted nonassaulted unassaultive cyberassaults microassaults unassaultable microassaulted sexual␣assaults verbal␣assaults counterassaults microassaulting tubular␣assaults indecent␣assaults aggravated␣assaults

10 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

reassault nonassault cyberassault microassault sexual␣assault verbal␣assault counterassault tubular␣assault indecent␣assault aggravated␣assault

14 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

ass ASS @$$ -ass aul Aul Ault SAU saul Saul sault SSA ult ult.

10 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

ass ASS @$$ -ass Lua LUA Luas SSA UAs UAS

6 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

assaults auslauts australs spatulas sultanas Sultanas

10 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

salats Saltau saltus saults Saults Sausal S.␣Austl. Staals taulas tussal

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