Synonyms for Assail:

• n.

  •
  • acute,
  • distinguish,
  • keen,
  • kinaesthetic,
  • perceive,
  • perception,
  • sensation,
  • sense.
  •
  • baste,
  • beat,
  • belabor,
  • buffet,
  • clobber,
  • depress,
  • devastate,
  • dismay,
  • distress,
  • disturb,
  • drub,
  • lambaste,
  • pummel,
  • smash,
  • stab,
  • thrash,
  • thresh,
  • upset,
  • worry,
  • wound.
  •
  • abuse,
  • ambush,
  • go for,
  • mug,
  • praise,
  • revile,
  • vituperate,
  • come at,
  • rail against.
  •
  • pitch into,
  • fall on,
  • go at,
  • have at,
  • light into,
  • sail into.
  •assail (noun)
  • assault,
  • attack,
  • lash out,
  • round,
  • set on,
  • snipe.
  •attack (noun)
  • plague.

• v.

  •attack (verb)
  • assault,
  • attack,
  • barrage,
  • batter,
  • bombard,
  • charge,
  • combat,
  • fight,
  • flay,
  • hammer,
  • harry,
  • invade,
  • lash,
  • lunge,
  • pound,
  • raid,
  • riot,
  • savage,
  • scarify,
  • scathe,
  • scorch,
  • slash,
  • storm,
  • strike,
  • thrust,
  • trounce,
  • violate.
  •attack, usually with words (verb)
  • abuse,
  • assault,
  • bash,
  • berate,
  • beset,
  • blast,
  • blister,
  • bust,
  • charge,
  • criticize,
  • encounter,
  • impugn,
  • invade,
  • lambaste,
  • lay into,
  • malign,
  • maltreat,
  • revile,
  • set upon,
  • trash,
  • vilify,
  • work over,
  • come at,
  • have at,
  • molest.
  •competition (verb)
  • assault,
  • attack,
  • set on.
  •overrun (verb)
  • infest.
  •question (verb)
  • impugn.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • claw,
  • clobber,
  • distinguish,
  • go for,
  • kinaesthetic,
  • lay into,
  • perceive,
  • sensory,
  • sentient,
  • set about,
  • tear into,
  • vituperate,
  • waylay,
  • work over,
  • fall on,
  • light into,
  • rail against.
  •
  • ambush,
  • belabor,
  • drub,
  • keen,
  • lambaste,
  • manhandle,
  • mug,
  • oppose,
  • perception,
  • pummel,
  • revile,
  • sensation,
  • smell,
  • come at.
  •
  • buffet.
  •
  • baste,
  • sense,
  • thrash,
  • thresh.
  •
  • acute,
  • jump,
  • smash.
  •
  • abuse,
  • rush.
  •
  • surprise.
  •
  • beat.
  •
  • pitch.
  •
  • have.
  •aggress
  • go at,
  • have at,
  • lunge at.
  •attack
  • aggress,
  • assault,
  • charge,
  • go for,
  • wallop,
  • come at,
  • lay siege to,
  • pounce upon,
  • take the offensive.
  •beset
  • fall upon,
  • fall on.
  •lay into
  • set about.
  •reproach
  • upbraid.
  •thresh
  • thresh,
  • rain blows on.
  •waylay
  • pounce on,
  • swoop down on.
  •Other relevant words:
  • absolutely,
  • abuse,
  • accuse,
  • acute,
  • affect,
  • afflict,
  • affront,
  • aggress,
  • aggression,
  • agitate,
  • amazing,
  • ambush,
  • ancestral,
  • ancestry,
  • assault,
  • baiting,
  • bash,
  • baste,
  • battle,
  • beat,
  • beautiful,
  • befall,
  • belabor,
  • belabour,
  • beleaguer,
  • berate,
  • beset,
  • besiege,
  • bite,
  • blame,
  • blast,
  • blister,
  • blitz,
  • blitzkrieg,
  • bomb,
  • bother,
  • bring down,
  • brush up,
  • buffet,
  • bushwhack,
  • business,
  • bust,
  • call,
  • calumniate,
  • castigate,
  • categorically,
  • censure,
  • certainly,
  • chasten,
  • chide,
  • claw,
  • clearly,
  • clobber,
  • communicable,
  • conclusion,
  • condemn,
  • confabulate,
  • confidently,
  • confront,
  • constructively,
  • contagious,
  • criminate,
  • criticise,
  • criticize,
  • curse,
  • decidedly,
  • decision,
  • decisively,
  • declaim,
  • decline,
  • decry,
  • defame,
  • definitely,
  • denounce,
  • deprecate,
  • depreciate,
  • depress,
  • descend,
  • descent,
  • determination,
  • devaluate,
  • devalue,
  • devastate,
  • diminish,
  • discern,
  • discover,
  • dishonor,
  • dishonour,
  • dismay,
  • disparage,
  • distinguish,
  • distress,
  • disturb,
  • drub,
  • emphatically,
  • employment,
  • encircle,
  • encompass,
  • encounter,
  • encroach,
  • engage,
  • examine,
  • excoriate,
  • execrate,
  • expressly,
  • extraordinary,
  • fall,
  • fall upon,
  • feel,
  • fill out,
  • flesh out,
  • genetic,
  • genetical,
  • genic,
  • go,
  • go for,
  • harangue,
  • harass,
  • have,
  • hector,
  • hereditary,
  • heritable,
  • implicate,
  • impose,
  • impugn,
  • inborn,
  • incriminate,
  • inculpate,
  • incursion,
  • infest,
  • inflict,
  • inherent,
  • inroad,
  • inspect,
  • insult,
  • inundate,
  • invading,
  • invasion,
  • involve,
  • join,
  • jump,
  • jump on,
  • keen,
  • kinaesthetic,
  • labialise,
  • labialize,
  • lace,
  • lace into,
  • lambaste,
  • lash out,
  • lay,
  • lay hands on,
  • lay into,
  • libel,
  • light,
  • look,
  • make,
  • malign,
  • maltreat,
  • manhandle,
  • marauding,
  • matter,
  • meet,
  • mug,
  • necessarily,
  • objurgate,
  • observe,
  • odds,
  • offence,
  • offense,
  • offensive,
  • onset,
  • onslaught,
  • oppose,
  • outrage,
  • overwhelm,
  • paste,
  • pelt,
  • pepper,
  • perceive,
  • perception,
  • petition,
  • pillory,
  • pitch,
  • pitch into,
  • plague,
  • polish,
  • polish up,
  • pommel,
  • positively,
  • potshot,
  • pounce,
  • predatory,
  • press,
  • pummel,
  • punish,
  • rail,
  • rate,
  • ravish,
  • ravishing,
  • rebuke,
  • remarkable,
  • reprimand,
  • reproach,
  • resist,
  • resolution,
  • revile,
  • ridicule,
  • roast,
  • round,
  • round down,
  • round off,
  • round out,
  • rush,
  • scald,
  • scold,
  • scorn,
  • scourge,
  • see,
  • seize,
  • sensation,
  • sense,
  • sensory,
  • sentient,
  • set,
  • set about,
  • set on,
  • set upon,
  • shame,
  • sharpshoot,
  • shell,
  • shocking,
  • shower,
  • sic,
  • siege,
  • slam,
  • slander,
  • smash,
  • smell,
  • smite,
  • snap at,
  • snipe,
  • stab,
  • strafe,
  • striking,
  • subject,
  • sue,
  • suit of clothes,
  • surely,
  • surprise,
  • surprising,
  • surround,
  • tear into,
  • thrash,
  • thresh,
  • totally,
  • traduce,
  • trash,
  • travel to,
  • trouble,
  • turn,
  • unequivocally,
  • unusual,
  • upbraid,
  • upset,
  • vilify,
  • visit,
  • vituperate,
  • wallop,
  • waylay,
  • wonderful,
  • work over,
  • worry,
  • wound,
  • Affirmatively,
  • Assailing,
  • Assailer,
  • Denunciate,
  • Fustigate,
  • Importune,
  • Impune,
  • put on,
  • familial,
  • come at,
  • come down on,
  • descend on,
  • fall on,
  • gang up on,
  • go at,
  • have at,
  • light into,
  • rail against,
  • rail at,
  • rip into,
  • sail into,
  • tongue-lash,
  • accord with,
  • contend with,
  • grapple with,
  • land on,
  • molest,
  • find fault with,
  • nibble at,
  • enter the lists,
  • inveigh against,
  • clash with,
  • crack down on,
  • rain blows on,
  • cross swords,
  • lay siege to,
  • apply oneself to,
  • be hostile to,
  • call in,
  • cry out against,
  • descend upon,
  • do battle with,
  • fire on,
  • jump down throat,
  • lash out at,
  • lunge at,
  • pounce on,
  • pounce upon,
  • set at,
  • skin alive,
  • swear at,
  • swoop down on,
  • take by surprise,
  • take the offensive,
  • wade into,
  • wind around,
  • fire upon.

Antonyms for Assail:

• Other antonyms:

  • n. t.
    commend, compliment, cover, hail, help, laud, let go, praise, protect, secure, shield, surrender.

• v.

  • attack, usually with words
    compliment, exonerate, help, let go, praise, protect, retreat, surrender, uphold, yield.
  • Other antonyms:
    acclaim, aid, befriend, commend, compliment, cover, defend, guard, hail, laud, praise, protect, resist, secure, shelter, shield, support, sustain, uphold, withstand.