| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To attack or invade.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. To waylay or ambush. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To besiege.[Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Present participle conjugation of the verb assail.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (assail) | 1. Attack someone physically or emotionally; "Nightmares assailed him regularly".[Wordnet]. 2. Launch an attack or assault on; begin hostilities or start warfare with; "Serbian forces assailed Bosnian towns all week".[Wordnet]. 3. Attack in speech or writing; "The editors of the left-leaning paper attacked the new House Speaker".[Wordnet]. 4. To attack with violence, or in a vehement and hostile manner; to assault; to molest; as, to assail a man with blows; to assail a city with artillery.[Websters]. 5. To encounter or meet purposely with the view of mastering, as an obstacle, difficulty, or the like.[Websters]. 6. To attack morally, or with a view to produce changes in the feelings, character, conduct, existing usages, institutions; to attack by words, hostile influence, etc.; as, to assail one with appeals, arguments, abuse, ridicule, and the like.[Websters]. 7. Base verb from the following inflections: assailing, assailed, assails, assailer, assailers, assailingly and assailedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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"ASSAILING" is a common misspelling or typo for: wassailing. |
Date "ASSAILING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Specialty Definition: ASSAILING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] assaulting; invading by force; attacking with violence.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Present participle of assail. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: assail
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| HMAS Assail (P 89) | HMAS Assail (P 89) was an Attack-class patrol boat boat built by Evans Deakin and Company at Brisbane in Queensland, launched on 18 November 1967 and commissioned on 12 July 1968. Assail paid off on 18 October 1985, transferred to the Indonesian Navy and renamed Sigurot. (references) | ||
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Topics by Level of Interest: assail | ||||
| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| USS Assail (AM-147) | 16 | Assail Bank | 4 | |
| HMAS Assail (P 89) | 8 | HMAS Assail (P 89) | 8 | |
| Assail Bank | 4 | USS Assail (AM-147) | 16 | |
Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses). | ||||
