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Pronunciation: [ɐsˈe͡ɪlz] (IPA)

Assails is a verb that means to attack or criticize someone strongly and aggressively. There are several synonyms for this word that can be used in different situations. Some of these words include assail, assault, attack, berate, condemn, censure, rebuke, denounce, vilify, and lambaste. Each of these words brings out a different shade of meaning, but all convey a sense of aggression, criticism, and hostility. These synonyms can be used in various contexts, including politics, sports, business, academics, and personal relationships. It is crucial to use the appropriate synonym for the right situation to convey the intended meaning effectively.

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Usage examples for Assails

Some rather amusing speeches of a different character in which du Maurier assails the more obvious forms of snobbery of a class below those with whom his art was generally concerned may be given: Among the Philistines.
"George Du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians"
T. Martin Wood
Free from any spark of vanity, she knew nothing of the shyness which assails self-conscious people.
"Only One Love, or Who Was the Heir"
Charles Garvice
And a sudden pang of something like envy assails her innocent heart.
"Erlach Court"
Ossip Schubin

Famous quotes with Assails

  • I. cannot stoop to reply to the folly and the slander of every poor Tory partisan who assails me, and I should not have noticed you but for the fact that you are a member of the House of Commons.
    John Bright
  • The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.
    Havelock Ellis
  • these movements never achieve the end they nominally have in view. They do nothing whatsoever except to increase among the men of the various churches the spirit of sectarian intolerance which is base and unlovely in any civilization, but which is utterly revolting among a free people that profess the principles we profess.All that it does isto greatly increase the spirit of theological animosity, both among the people to whom it appeals and among the people whom it assails.it has in the past invariably resulted,in putting unworthy men into office; for there is nothing that a man of loose principles and of evil practices in public life so desires as the chance to distract attention from his own shortcomings and misdeeds by exciting and inflaming theological and sectarian prejudice.
    Theodore Roosevelt
  • Pleasure assails a man through each and every sense that he has; and while he must face and grapple with work, to pleasure he must give the widest berth possible and have none but unavoidable dealings with her. And herein the strongest man is indeed strongest, one might almost say, who can keep the farthest away from pleasures; for it is impossible to dwell with pleasure or even to dally with her for any length of time without being completely enslaved.
    Dio Chrysostom
  • I get up, go out, and everything is changed. The blood drains from my head, the noise of things bursting, merging, avoiding one another, assails me on all sides, my eyes search in vain for two things alike, each pinpoint of skin screams a different message, I drown in the spray of phenomena.
    Samuel Beckett

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