All 3 Uses of
assail
in
Catch-22
- An anxious doubt assailed him.†
Chpt 10 *
- When such misgivings assailed Colonel Cathcart, he choked back a sob and wanted to throw the damned thing away, but he was restrained by his unswerving conviction that the cigarette holder never failed to embellish his masculine, martial physique with a high gloss of sophisticated heroism that illuminated him to dazzling advantage among all the other full colonels in the American Army with whom he was in competition.†
Chpt 19
- Milo assailed them incredulously at the top of his voice.†
Chpt 24
Definition:
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(assail) attack physically or verbally