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assault

Law an intentional or reckless act that causes another person to expect to be subjected to immediate and unlawful violence
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assault

[ə′sȯlt]
(ordnance)
Final phase of an attack; closing with the enemy in hand-to-hand fighting.
The landing of troops for attack on the enemy's beach defenses.
The landing of parachute and glider elements on unsecured and unprepared drop zones and landing zones to attack and seize an airhead.
A short, violent, but well-ordered attack against a local objective, such as a gun emplacement, fort, or machine gun nest.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

Assault

famous horse in history of thoroughbred racing. [Am. Hist.: NCE, 1273]
See: Horse
Allusions—Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Last Tuesday, another family assaulted a doctor due to the unavailability of beds in the intensive care unit at Sohag hospital.
Patrick Chariot of the department of forensic medicine at Hopital Jean-Verdier in Bondy, France, and his colleagues conducted an observational and prospective study to compare the psychological and physical symptoms of women assaulted by intimate partners with the symptoms of women who were assaulted by an acquaintance or unknown person.
Summary: Defendants stormed pitch at midnight, assaulted victim over a previous disagreement
The same man is said to have followed the woman on to Carisbrooke Avenue, where he sexually assaulted her again.
The 101st Airborne Division's 1st Brigade "Bastogne" air assaulted onto an Iraqi base more than 93 miles behind hostile lines.
The incident happened in Whitley Bay on January 19 at 7.05pm A police spokesman said: "Police are appealing for information after a man was assaulted in North Tyneside.