assail
I
verb
accost, adgredi, adoriri, advance against, advance upon, aggress, assault, assault belligerently, attack, beset, encounter, fall upon, invade, mug, oppugn, oppugnare, rush upon, savage, set upon, set upon with violence, storm, thrust at, waylay
associated concepts: assailant
II
index
accost, ambush, assault, attack, badger, censure, complain (criticize), confront (oppose), defame, denounce (condemn), despoil, engage (involve), fight (battle), harass, harrow, harry (plunder), impugn, invade, lash (attack verbally), maltreat, mishandle (maltreat), mistreat, persecute, resist (oppose), strike (assault)
Burton's Legal Thesaurus.
William C. Burton.
2006