Assailant

Quick meaning: Assailant is a noun meaning Someone who attacks or assails another violently, or criminally.

Meaning

Someone who attacks or assails another violently, or criminally.

More Meanings

1. (figuratively, by extension) A hostile critic or opponent.
2. Assailing; attacking.

Example Sentences

I’ll put myself in poor and mean attire, And with a kind of umber smirch my face; The like do you; so shall we pass along, And never stir assailants.

In the village of Aqraba, the Sheikh Saadeh Mosque was set on fire before the assailants graffitied the words “price tag” and “revenge” on its walls.

In the middle of a crowded street a young man would be attacked, stripped, thrashed, and left bleeding on the pavement; in fifteen seconds it was all over and the assailants had disappeared.

1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, London: T. Payne and Son and T. Cadell, Volume 5, Book 9, Chapter 3, p. 41, […] the assailants of the quill have their honour as much at heart as the assailants of the sword.

Word Forms

• assailants

Synonyms for assailant

Depending on context, synonyms include attacker, aggressor.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include aggressor, attacker, attacking, mob, bully, abuser.

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