(n.) A violent onset or attack with physical means, as blows, weapons, etc.; an onslaught; the rush or charge of an attacking force; onset; as, to make assault upon a man, a house, or a town.
(n.) A violent onset or attack with moral weapons, as words, arguments, appeals, and the like; as, to make an assault on the prerogatives of a prince, or on the constitution of a government.
(n.) An apparently violent attempt, or willful offer with force or violence, to do hurt to another; an attempt or offer to beat another, accompanied by a degree of violence, but without touching his person, as by lifting the fist, or a cane, in a threatening manner, or by striking at him, and missing him. If the blow aimed takes effect, it is a battery.
(n.) To make an assault upon, as by a sudden rush of armed men; to attack with unlawful or insulting physical violence or menaces.
(n.) To attack with moral means, or with a view of producing moral effects; to attack by words, arguments, or unfriendly measures; to assail; as, to assault a reputation or an administration.
Example Sentences:
(1) DI James Faulkner of Great Manchester police said: “The men and women working in the factory have told us that they were subjected to physical and verbal assaults at the hands of their employers and forced to work more than 80-hours before ending up with around £25 for their week’s work.
(2) The author's experience in private psychoanalytic practice and in Philadelphia's rape victim clinics indicates that these assaults occur frequently.
(3) Although the group is constantly the target of an all-out political assault, it has a robust national fundraising operation that allows it to subsidize abortions for poor women and expand to new locations.
(4) The attitudes and practices of 96 doctors toward spousal assault victims in the Australian Capital Territory, Australia, were investigated by questionnaire surveys distributed to general practitioners.
(5) Some have been threatened and assaulted, while others’ homes have been ransacked, their families living in constant fear.
(6) I was amazed by the sheer scale of the operation, easily mistaken for a full military assault on a kraken.
(7) After Mousa's death, the surviving detainees were subjected to further assaults.
(8) Some 300 million women and girls are forced to defecate outside, exposed not only to the risks of disease and bacterial infection, but also harassment and assault by men.
(9) Alcohol use appeared to be a significant ingredient in the production of the assaultive behavior in the majority of the cases.
(10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Trump ‘sways malevolently’ behind Hillary Clinton Instead, he began the night by assembling a group of women in a press conference to revisit alleged sexual assaults by Bill Clinton, before confronting his opponent hardest on her private email server.
(11) It is Vine who initiated this latest assault on Ed’s character.
(12) Sexual assault of women in the United States may have a prevalence rate of 25% or more.
(13) Inevitably, and necessarily, Labour has appeared split as the coalition has captured broad public support for its assault on the deficit.
(14) Reports of violence associated with delusional misidentification are reviewed and four patients described who were either perpetrators or victims of assaults as a consequence of the syndromes of Frégoli, Intermetamorphosis, Subjective Doubles and Capgras.
(15) It is believed that many women have yet to report assaults, and police appealed for people who had not already done so to come forward.
(16) Beatings with metal bars and cables were followed by so-called “security checks”, during which women in particular were subjected to rape and sexual assault by male guards.
(17) The retired judge’s report outlines multiple rapes and indecent assaults on children by Savile, which she claims were all “in some way associated with the BBC”.
(18) Sexual assault victims (1,059) under the age of 17 were evaluated over a period of 44 months in a teaching, metropolitan county emergency room.
(19) As Bradford University professor Paul Rogers told Jones, the bombing of Mali "will be portrayed as 'one more example of an assault on Islam'".
(20) It doesn't surprise me that a man whose hit song sounded like an assault anthem and featured a video full of naked models would attempt to get back his wife via public pressure and a threatening music video.
Bout
Definition:
(n.) As much of an action as is performed at one time; a going and returning, as of workmen in reaping, mowing, etc.; a turn; a round.
(n.) A conflict; contest; attempt; trial; a set-to at anything; as, a fencing bout; a drinking bout.
Example Sentences:
(1) A 61-year-old man experienced four bouts of pancreatitis in 1 year.
(2) Repeated bouts of heavy treadmill exercise (6 min at 95% VO2 max) were performed once per hour for 24 h in order to promote a shift in energy substrate from carbohydrate to fat.
(3) An epidemiologic background appropriate to "serum" hepatitis, either transfusion (one bout) or illicit self-injection (46 bouts), was associated just as frequently with serologically non-B episodes as with identified type B disease.
(4) World stock markets suffered another bout of heavy losses when trading began on Thursday, with the FTSE 100 falling 57 points within the opening minutes to 5879.
(5) Jeremain Lens, signed from Dynamo Kyiv, was fortunate to escape dismissal for a second yellow card, while Yann M’Vila, on loan from Rubin Kazan, followed his headbutt in the reserves by raising arms to Graham Dorrans during an unpunished, but unwise, bout of push ’n’ shove.
(6) Compared weight losses during first and second bouts of a very low calorie diet (VLCD) and examined whether decreased compliance might in part explain the decrease in weight loss during the second bout.
(7) Length, size, and interval between eating bouts were determined for four forages with two lactating dairy cows.
(8) Euthanasia was done before the end of the 10-day experimental period if the cats had two bouts of urethral obstruction or if the cats became uremic for causes unrelated to urethral obstruction.
(9) Log-survivor analysis of inter-pellet intervals was used to define feeding bouts, and this was then used to compute measures of bout frequency, bout size, bout duration and eating rate.
(10) A bout a year ago, a few months before she left sixth-form college, my youngest daughter asked cheerily: "What will you feel when you have no one left to wave goodbye to in the morning?"
(11) Single or repetitive supraventricular premature beats were found in 65 (41%), paroxysmal atrial or junctional tachycardias in 20 (12%), bouts of atrial flutter or fibrillation in 3 (2%).
(12) ), and another bout of jitters over when the US Federal Reserve will start to slow its own stimulus programme.
(13) Only the rats with a 30-min hiatus between the 15- and 25-min bouts of RAO had significantly worse renal failure than controls subjected to a single 25-min ischemic event.
(14) Detailed clinical and psychological experimental study of 103 schizophrenia patients with anorexia nervosa revealed its most characteristic correlations with a specific variant of the pathology of drive--bulimia bouts and induced vomiting.
(15) A bout three in every 10 people in Britain think social workers help with household chores like cooking and cleaning, with personal care like washing and dressing, and with childcare.
(16) Finally, a single bout of exercise does not influence either the beta-cell response to intravenous glucose or glucose-induced thermogenesis.
(17) Nine well-trained subjects performed 15-, 30- and 45-s bouts of sprint exercise using a cycle ergometer.
(18) The permeability of rat epitrochlearis muscle to 3-O-methylglucose (3-MG) was measured after exposure to a range of insulin concentrations 30, 60, and 180 min after a bout of exercise.
(19) Antemortem steroid therapy and bouts of violent coughing may explain these unusual findings.
(20) On why this bout is so big: It's very important to get the public perception and the media perception, especially after the first fight.