Antonyms for assail

Grammar : Verb

Spell : uh-seyl

Phonetic Transcription : əˈseɪl

Definition of assail

Origin : c.1200, from Old French assalir "attack, assault, assail" (12c., Modern French assaillir), from Vulgar Latin *adsalire "to leap at," from Latin ad- "at" (see ad-) + salire "to leap" (see salient (adj.)). Figurative use from mid-14c. Related: Assailed; assailing; assailable.

verb attack, usually with words

Example sentences :

The darts of calamity may assail her on every side, but she is invulnerable to them all.
Extract from : « Imogen » by William Godwin

At the turret we could assail Hahn, and replace him with Snap.
Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1930 » by Various

If you assail me by the brain, I may attack you at the heart!
Extract from : « Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. » by Charles James Lever

Besides, the real intention was not to assail you, but the people here who admitted you.'
Extract from : « Lord Kilgobbin » by Charles Lever

What temptations would not assail her,—by what flatteries would she not be beset!
Extract from : « Sir Jasper Carew » by Charles James Lever

The crew were enjoined to assail him with insulting mockery.
Extract from : « Ferdinand De Soto, The Discoverer of the Mississippi » by John S. C. Abbott

The partizans of abolition could assail the system at its foundation.
Extract from : « The History of Tasmania , Volume II (of 2) » by John West

It is not my desire to assail, not is it my part to defend, the reputation of the great.
Extract from : « Simon Dale » by Anthony Hope

I may observe that this reflection has not vanished with infancy, but still is apt to assail me.
Extract from : « The King's Mirror » by Anthony Hope

Never would she cease to assail it until the Union was indissoluble.
Extract from : « William Pitt and the Great War » by John Holland Rose

Synonyms for assail

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