Tra từ assault - Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

I - noun

1. close fighting during the culmination of a military attack (Freq. 6)
• Topics:
military, armed forces, armed services, military machine, war machine
• Hypernyms:
battle, conflict, fight, engagement
• Hyponyms:
resisting arrest, storm
• Part Holonyms:
attack, onslaught, onset, onrush
2. a threatened or attempted physical attack by someone who appears to be able to cause bodily harm if not stopped (Freq. 1)
• Hypernyms:
attack, attempt
• Hyponyms:
aggravated assault, battery, assault and battery, mugging
3. the crime of forcing a woman to submit to sexual intercourse against her will
• Syn:
rape, violation, ravishment
• Derivationally related forms:
ravish (for: ravishment), violate (for: violation), rape (for: rape)
• Hypernyms:
sexual assault, sexual abuse, sex crime, sex offense
• Hyponyms:
date rape, statutory rape, carnal abuse

II - verb

1. attack someone physically or emotionally (Freq. 7)
- The mugger assaulted the woman
- Nightmares assailed him regularly
• Syn:
assail, set on, attack
• Derivationally related forms:
attack (for: attack), attacker (for: attack), assaultive, assaulter, assailant (for: assail)
• Hyponyms:
bait, sic, set, bulldog, rush,
blindside, savage, reassail, jump, beset, set upon,
rape, ravish, violate, dishonor, dishonour, outrage,
desecrate, profane, molest
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
2. force (someone) to have sex against their will
- The woman was raped on her way home at night
• Syn:
rape, ravish, violate, dishonor, dishonour, outrage
• Derivationally related forms:
outrage (for: outrage), dishonor (for: dishonor), assaultive, violation (for: violate), violator (for: violate), ravishment (for: ravish), ravisher (for: ravish), rape (for: rape), raper (for: rape)
• Hypernyms:
assail, set on, attack
• Hyponyms:
gang-rape
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
3. attack in speech or writing
- The editors of the left-leaning paper attacked the new House Speaker
• Syn:
attack, round, assail, lash out, snipe
• Derivationally related forms:
assaultive, assaulter, assailant (for: assail), attack (for: attack), attacker (for: attack)
• Hypernyms:
knock, criticize, criticise, pick apart
• Hyponyms:
abuse, clapperclaw, blackguard, shout, claw,
vitriol, rip, whang, bombard, barrage, blister,
scald, whip, rubbish
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
- Something ----s something
- Somebody ----s PP (for: snipe)
- Somebody ----s PP (for: lash out)
- Somebody ----s PP (for: round)