Definition for Assault:

• Make violent attack upon( lit. & fig.); assail; attack( fortress) by sudden rush. Hence assaultable a. [ old French]

Synonyms for Assault:

• n.

  •
  • incursion,
  • skirmish,
  • campaign,
  • mission,
  • struggle,
  • advance.
  •
  • distinguish,
  • acute,
  • keen,
  • perception,
  • kinaesthetic,
  • sense,
  • crime,
  • sensation,
  • perceive.
  •
  • quibble,
  • denunciation,
  • light into,
  • have at,
  • reproach,
  • remonstrance,
  • fall on,
  • talking to,
  • pitch into,
  • lecture,
  • criticism,
  • diatribe,
  • go at,
  • sail into,
  • harangue.
  •
  • pounding,
  • clobber,
  • tanning,
  • pummel,
  • lambaste,
  • thrash,
  • baste,
  • buffet,
  • salvo,
  • belabor,
  • counterattack,
  • beat,
  • swoop,
  • smash,
  • drub,
  • thresh.
  •
  • go for,
  • come at,
  • force,
  • mug,
  • fly at,
  • ambush.
  •
  • armory,
  • Assailment,
  • ammunition,
  • arms,
  • artillery,
  • arsenal,
  • offensive,
  • armaments,
  • onset,
  • ammo,
  • attempt,
  • onrush,
  • armoury,
  • armed.
  •
  • go,
  • stand,
  • effort,
  • push,
  • try,
  • chase.
  •assault (noun)
  • lay into,
  • molestation,
  • storm,
  • offensive,
  • bombard,
  • raid,
  • invasion,
  • set upon,
  • mug,
  • mugging,
  • Storming,
  • abuse,
  • attack,
  • go for,
  • interfere with,
  • blitz,
  • battery,
  • incursion,
  • rape,
  • molest,
  • HIT,
  • charge,
  • fall on,
  • strike,
  • onslaught,
  • invade.
  •attack (noun)
  • battle,
  • bombardment,
  • combat,
  • offense,
  • raid,
  • rape,
  • onslaught,
  • spasm,
  • riot,
  • thrust,
  • barrage,
  • war,
  • advance,
  • outbreak,
  • storm,
  • incursion,
  • onset,
  • charge,
  • warfare,
  • furor,
  • aggression,
  • sortie,
  • invasion,
  • strike,
  • violation,
  • siege,
  • Storming,
  • tirade,
  • bloodshed,
  • offensive,
  • foray.
  •blitz (noun)
  • Lightning Attack.
  •crime (noun)
  • felony.
  •offense (noun)
  • offence.
  •offensive (noun)
  • offensive.
  •rape (noun)
  • violation,
  • molestation.
  •violence (noun)
  • barbarity,
  • broil,
  • commotion,
  • fracas,
  • intensity,
  • brutishness,
  • inhumanity,
  • terrorism,
  • outrage,
  • turmoil,
  • attack,
  • vehemence,
  • abuse,
  • insurrection,
  • thuggery,
  • fierceness,
  • fury,
  • brutality,
  • violence,
  • ferocity,
  • atrocity,
  • savagery,
  • fight,
  • torture,
  • vandalism,
  • rage,
  • wildness,
  • uproar,
  • brawl,
  • frenzy,
  • destructiveness.

• v.

  •attack (verb)
  • trash,
  • bash,
  • blast,
  • harry,
  • lay into,
  • scathe,
  • set upon,
  • slam,
  • abuse,
  • lunge,
  • bushwhack,
  • jump down one's throat,
  • blitz,
  • go for,
  • pound,
  • violate,
  • scarify,
  • ruin,
  • let have it,
  • bombard,
  • work over,
  • trounce,
  • hammer,
  • zap,
  • batter,
  • invade,
  • jump,
  • lash,
  • assail,
  • scorch,
  • slap around,
  • come down on,
  • flay,
  • jump on one's case,
  • savage,
  • haul off on,
  • beset,
  • slash,
  • light into.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • sensory,
  • arms,
  • claw,
  • firepower,
  • incitement,
  • pounding,
  • reconnaissance,
  • rough up,
  • ambush,
  • kinaesthetic,
  • counteroffensive,
  • Skirmishing,
  • clobber,
  • dogfight,
  • lay into,
  • set about,
  • perceive,
  • materiel,
  • assault and battery,
  • counterattack,
  • skirmish,
  • sentient,
  • engagement,
  • tanning,
  • arson,
  • go for,
  • holocaust,
  • hostility,
  • armament,
  • push,
  • work over,
  • tear into,
  • distinguish,
  • Bashing,
  • onrush,
  • Assailment,
  • campaign,
  • salvo,
  • weaponry.
  •
  • keen,
  • kidnap,
  • ordnance,
  • missile,
  • artillery,
  • mug,
  • drub,
  • oppose,
  • lambaste,
  • manhandle,
  • pummel,
  • ammunition,
  • armed,
  • belabor,
  • smell,
  • arsenal,
  • armory,
  • capability,
  • come at,
  • swoop,
  • sensation,
  • battery,
  • shot,
  • perception,
  • mission,
  • deterrent.
  •
  • descent,
  • instrument,
  • buffet,
  • engage,
  • withdrawal,
  • attempt.
  •
  • sense,
  • thrash,
  • thresh,
  • baste.
  •
  • movement,
  • fall on,
  • acute,
  • jump,
  • smash.
  •
  • beat.
  •
  • action.
  •
  • pitch.
  •
  • have.
  •aggress
  • lunge at,
  • go at.
  •ambush
  • waylay,
  • bushwhack.
  •assail
  • fly at.
  •attack
  • wallop,
  • lay siege to,
  • go for,
  • aggress,
  • light into,
  • come at,
  • pounce upon,
  • take the offensive.
  •blitz
  • blitzkrieg.
  •go for
  • run at.
  •hold up
  • mug.
  •rebuke
  • light into.
  •startle
  • surprise.
  •thresh
  • rain blows on,
  • thresh,
  • caning.
  •Other relevant words:
  • invading,
  • molest,
  • dogfight,
  • bomb,
  • onrush,
  • tear,
  • ruin,
  • goad,
  • rave,
  • knock about,
  • megadeath,
  • fall upon,
  • acute,
  • revilement,
  • accusation,
  • repeater,
  • tongue-lash,
  • ram,
  • come,
  • automatic pistol,
  • brutalization,
  • arquebus,
  • go,
  • zap,
  • basting,
  • engage,
  • steal,
  • manhandle,
  • lace into,
  • smell,
  • ravishment,
  • pile,
  • force,
  • poke,
  • thrashing,
  • mugging,
  • haul off on,
  • unruliness,
  • take off,
  • come to blows,
  • offensive,
  • detrimental,
  • cram,
  • mistreat,
  • Bashing,
  • lecture,
  • manhandling,
  • pounce on,
  • waylay,
  • prod,
  • attaint,
  • ammo,
  • harangue,
  • lunge at,
  • set about,
  • ram down,
  • butcher,
  • clobber,
  • bear,
  • harass,
  • entrancement,
  • criticism,
  • disgrace,
  • boost,
  • sacking,
  • looting,
  • shot,
  • hostility,
  • sail into,
  • gunflint,
  • kinaesthetic,
  • round down,
  • ravish,
  • polish,
  • shock,
  • invective,
  • go for,
  • armoury,
  • enchant,
  • deface,
  • counterattack,
  • onset,
  • musketry,
  • offend,
  • overwhelm,
  • set on,
  • vilification,
  • set upon,
  • citation,
  • engagement,
  • have,
  • intrusion,
  • advance,
  • mug,
  • mischievous,
  • gird,
  • air gun,
  • infraction,
  • killing,
  • barbarize,
  • artillery,
  • upbraid,
  • firepower,
  • smite,
  • interfere with,
  • infringement,
  • disorderliness,
  • maltreat,
  • smash,
  • shooter,
  • strafe,
  • sharpshoot,
  • work over,
  • involvement,
  • slap around,
  • perception,
  • sensation,
  • blast,
  • impugn,
  • inculpation,
  • bruise,
  • labialize,
  • appall,
  • usurpation,
  • distinguish,
  • claw,
  • maraud,
  • round off,
  • thresh,
  • missile,
  • jam,
  • beautiful,
  • sack,
  • thrash,
  • instrument,
  • ravening,
  • shove,
  • drive,
  • reproach,
  • action,
  • vituperation,
  • wallop,
  • descent,
  • dig,
  • beset,
  • lace,
  • hold up,
  • censure,
  • impair,
  • harmful,
  • negative,
  • crime,
  • pitch,
  • affray,
  • incrimination,
  • butt,
  • fowling piece,
  • push,
  • rifle,
  • reave,
  • shower,
  • Depredate,
  • lay on,
  • infiltration,
  • carry away,
  • bust,
  • buffet,
  • wind around,
  • run at,
  • capability,
  • run,
  • carbine,
  • enthral,
  • indulge,
  • diversion,
  • try,
  • holocaust,
  • apply oneself to,
  • Assailing,
  • fall,
  • trash,
  • bear upon,
  • drubbing,
  • snipe,
  • maul,
  • berate,
  • incitement,
  • counteroffensive,
  • scald,
  • labialise,
  • surprise,
  • surround,
  • launch into,
  • hustle,
  • rob,
  • damaging,
  • caning,
  • pummel,
  • profane,
  • armament,
  • have at,
  • blitz,
  • Haguebut,
  • crowd,
  • armaments,
  • battery,
  • inroad,
  • maltreatment,
  • reconnaissance,
  • battering,
  • mob,
  • contumely,
  • effort,
  • Assailment,
  • polish up,
  • denunciation,
  • enthrall,
  • screed,
  • injure,
  • strong-arm,
  • swoop,
  • plunder,
  • set,
  • Storming,
  • terrorise,
  • armed,
  • butchery,
  • light into,
  • arson,
  • hammering,
  • Caliver,
  • jump down one's throat,
  • overkill,
  • rough handling,
  • massacre,
  • predatory,
  • come down on,
  • incursion,
  • shame,
  • jeremiad,
  • come at,
  • musket,
  • throttle,
  • arms,
  • tear into,
  • rampage,
  • enrapture,
  • Petronel,
  • conflict,
  • belabour,
  • deterrent,
  • oppose,
  • disconfirming,
  • contravene,
  • grip,
  • dishonour,
  • scandalise,
  • bear off,
  • hurtle,
  • skirmish,
  • defense,
  • pitch into,
  • felony,
  • slam,
  • lay,
  • abduct,
  • besiege,
  • rattle,
  • wade into,
  • bump,
  • shooting iron,
  • destructive,
  • coup de main,
  • electronegative,
  • pepper,
  • round out,
  • gang up on,
  • needle gun,
  • loot,
  • nibble at,
  • rush,
  • sense,
  • bushwhack,
  • tanning,
  • misdemeanor,
  • blunderbuss,
  • bulldoze,
  • implication,
  • press,
  • nudge,
  • shotgun,
  • predacious,
  • deflower,
  • crack down on,
  • hurtful,
  • rap,
  • jolt,
  • stress,
  • care,
  • lay waste,
  • Impugnment,
  • withdrawal,
  • Skirmishing,
  • descend,
  • rapine,
  • revolver,
  • fall on,
  • remonstrance,
  • jostle,
  • Escopette,
  • berating,
  • banzai attack,
  • lambasting,
  • strip,
  • harm,
  • campaign,
  • jump on one's case,
  • sic,
  • debauch,
  • fire upon,
  • round,
  • ambush,
  • reflection,
  • trespass,
  • diatribe,
  • descend upon,
  • struggle,
  • desecrate,
  • visitation,
  • injurious,
  • hackbut,
  • misdemeanour,
  • rough,
  • Violating,
  • mistreatment,
  • enter the lists,
  • scold,
  • bear away,
  • sex,
  • shell,
  • hiding,
  • descend on,
  • paste,
  • brutalize,
  • punch,
  • dishonor,
  • swoop down on,
  • encroach,
  • roar,
  • ramp,
  • fire on,
  • ill-treatment,
  • bash,
  • ordnance,
  • beleaguer,
  • Jawing,
  • set at,
  • make for,
  • encounter,
  • assault and battery,
  • seize,
  • carry on,
  • tamp,
  • elbow,
  • carry off,
  • weaponry,
  • vandalize,
  • rating,
  • run against,
  • burden,
  • aggress,
  • belabor,
  • pommel,
  • colza,
  • criticise,
  • muzzle-loader,
  • lay hands on,
  • Adeem,
  • take by storm,
  • Brassica Napus,
  • pistol,
  • diversionary attack,
  • sensory,
  • transgress,
  • armory,
  • Chassepot,
  • garrotte,
  • chase,
  • breakthrough,
  • snatch,
  • descent on,
  • six-shooter,
  • jog,
  • flesh out,
  • access,
  • baste,
  • wreck,
  • misuse,
  • tongue-lashing,
  • Escopet,
  • perceive,
  • appal,
  • movement,
  • go on,
  • pounce upon,
  • lambaste,
  • rioting,
  • scandalize,
  • rant,
  • destroy,
  • bad,
  • obstreperousness,
  • flogging,
  • burn,
  • jab,
  • fly at,
  • beating,
  • materiel,
  • ravishing,
  • spoil,
  • shake,
  • transport,
  • resist,
  • fusil,
  • joggle,
  • vulturine,
  • infract,
  • pillaging,
  • talking to,
  • go at,
  • matchlock,
  • marauding,
  • Mauling,
  • rain blows on,
  • beat,
  • brush up,
  • lashing,
  • mission,
  • land on,
  • run away with,
  • accost,
  • encircle,
  • take the offensive,
  • sally,
  • lay siege to,
  • keen,
  • automatic gun,
  • blackening,
  • salvo,
  • hurry,
  • make,
  • lash out at,
  • drub,
  • small arms,
  • blitzkrieg,
  • lash out,
  • stand,
  • light,
  • philippic,
  • bodily harm,
  • sentient,
  • attempt,
  • encroachment,
  • fill out,
  • buck,
  • rough up,
  • ransack,
  • Musketoon,
  • whipping,
  • delight,
  • laying waste,
  • breach,
  • invasive,
  • arsenal,
  • pounding,
  • bunt,
  • aggravated assault,
  • ammunition,
  • injury,
  • break,
  • pillage,
  • let have it,
  • abstract,
  • bull,
  • jump on,
  • go after,
  • Pasting,
  • irreverence,
  • belting,
  • prejudicial,
  • ravage,
  • pelt,
  • terrorize,
  • jump,
  • firelock,
  • blow,
  • lay into,
  • shoulder,
  • execration,
  • quibble,
  • Lightning Attack,
  • seizure,
  • kidnap,
  • despoil,
  • slaughter,
  • shock tactics,
  • trouncing.

Antonyms for Assault:

• n.

  • attack
    retreat.
  • Other antonyms:
    sustain, shelter, guard, resist, withstand, befriend, support, resistance, defensive, opposition, uphold, aid.

• Other antonyms:

  • n. t.
    counterattack, decrease, defence, defensive, praise, resist, resistance, retreat, secure, shelter.

• v.

  • attack
    praise, decrease.