assail

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• Rhymes: -eɪl

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to assail (third-person singular simple present assails, present participle assailing, simple past and past participle assailed)

1. To attack violently.

   For the next six months or so those children will assail her in public with demands for an improper story!" (from H.H. Munro's short story, "The Storyteller").

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