Both Uses of
assault
in
Bleak House
- He brings actions for assault and battery; I defend them and continue to assault and batter.†
Chpt 7-9 *
- There were such portentous shepherdesses among the Ladies Dedlock dead and gone, he told us, that peaceful crooks became weapons of assault in their hands.†
Chpt 37-39
Definition:
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(assault) to attack someone or something physically or verbally; or to threaten violence