Assault

Noun

 * 1) 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.
 * 2) (military) The climax of an attack, closing with the enemy in hand-to-hand fighting.
 * 3) (military) To make a short, violent, but well-ordered attack against a local objective, such as a gun emplacement, a fort, or a machine gun nest.
 * 4) 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.
 * 5)  An attempt to commit battery: a violent attempt, or willful effort with force or violence, to do hurt to another, but without necessarily touching his person, as by lifting a fist in a threatening manner, or by striking at him and missing him.
 * 6)  The crime whose action is such an attempt.
 * 7)  An act that causes someone to apprehend imminent bodily harm.
 * 8)  The tort whose action is such an act.
 * 9)  A non-competitive combat between two fencers.

Verb

 * 1) To attack, threaten or harass.

Adjectives for Assault
intermittent; rude; meditated; critical; damnable; aggravated; gallant; fresh; feeble; furious; formidable; anonymous; salutary; murderous; vigorous; mock; contemplated; desperate; boisterous; drunken; base; vain; magnificent; counter; general;unprovoked; concentrated; criminal; inexplicable; destructive; terrific; simultaneous; felonious; courageous; vicious; serious; determined; savage; wicked; shrewd; frenzied; devastating; thorough-going.

Verbs for Assault
aggravate—; bear—; carry by—; commit—; constitute—; counter—; defy—; fortify against—; gain by—; incur—; inflict—;intend—; make—upon; overthrow—; parallel—; project—; punish—; renew—; repeat—; repulse—; resist—; rush to—; scorn—;threaten with—; win by—; withstand—;—destroys; —produces; —weakens.

Adverbs for Assault
outrageously; violently; rudely; critically; damnably; gallantly; feebly; murderously; furiously; formidably; vigorously; desperately; boisterously; drunkenly; basely; vainly; magnificently; unprovokedly; criminally; inexplicably; destructively; simultaneously;  feloniously; frenzledly; devastatingly.

Synonyms for Assault
attack, rape, invasion, charge, onslaught.

Antonyms for Assault
surrender, defense.

Thesaurus
abuse; aggravated assault; aggression; ambush; amphibious attack; armed assault; assail; assailing; assailment; attack; banzai attack; barbarize; batter; battering; battery; bear; bear upon; beat up; beating; berating; beset; bitter words; blackening; blitz; blitzkrieg; boost; breakthrough; bruise; brutalize; buck; bull; bulldoze; bump; bump against; bunt; burn; bushwhack; butcher; butchery; butt; butt against; carry on; censure; charge; citation; come at; come down on; contumely; counterattack; counteroffensive; coup de main; crack down on; cram; crippling attack; crowd; dead set at; descend on; descend upon; descent on; destroy; diatribe; dig; disorderliness; diversion; diversionary attack; drive; elbow; execration; fall on; fall upon; flank attack; force; forcible seizure; frontal attack; gang up on; gas attack; go at; go for; go on; goad; hammer; hard words; harm; harry; have at; head-on attack; hit; hit like lightning; hold-up; hurtle; hustle; implication; impugnment; incrimination; inculpation; incursion; infiltration; invasion; invective; involvement; jab; jam; jawing; jeremiad; jog; joggle; jolt; jostle; jump; killing; land on; lay at; lay hands on; lay into; lay waste; laying waste; light into; lightning attack; lightning war; loot; looting; mass attack; massacre; maul; megadeath; molest; molestation; mug; mugging; nudge; obstreperousness; offense; offensive; onset; onslaught; overkill; panzer warfare; philippic; pile drive; pillage; pillaging; pitch into; poke; pounce upon; pound; press; prod; punch; push; rage; raid; ram; ram down; ramp; rampage; rant; rape; rating; rattle; rave; revilement; riot; rioting; roar; ruin; run; run against; run at; rush; sack; sacking; sail into; sally; savage; screed; set on; set upon; shake; shock tactics; shoulder; shove; slaughter; smite; sortie; sow chaos; sowing with salt; storm; stress; strike; surprise; swoop down on; take the offensive; tamp; tear; tear around; terrorize; thrust; tirade; tongue-lashing; unprovoked assault; unruliness; vandalize; vilification; violate; violation; vituperation; wade into; wreck

Derived terms
antiassault; assault and battery; nonassault

Coordinate terms
battery