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assaulting

Meaning

of Assault

Source: Webster's dictionary

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I have a lot of nervous energy. Work is my best way of channelling that into something productive unless I want to wind up assaulting the postman or gardener. Ben Stiller

All we know is that, sometimes, in our battles with the Russians, we had to remove the mounds of enemy corpses from before our trenches, in order to get a clear field of fire against fresh assaulting waves. Paul von Hindenburg

He was assaulting the world by assaulting himself. Chuck Palahniuk

Human beings always say they prefer peace, but it takes a saint to talk us into not assaulting our neighbors. John Barnes

Just as the defending force has gathered valuable experience from...Dieppe, so has the assaulting force...He will not do it like this a second time. Gerd von Rundstedt

When about fifteen I once made a great scandal by taking out my knife in prayer meeting and assaulting a young man who, while I was kneeling down during the prayer, stood above me and squeezed my neck. Simon Newcomb

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