assailin a sentence
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Critics assailed the author’s latest work, questioning its originality and depth.assailed = attacked
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Serbian forces assailed Bosnian towns.
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She was assailed by doubtassailed = troubled
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She took every opportunity to assail the policy.assail = attack
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I was immediately assailed by the scent. (source)assailed = assaulted
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The more he thought, the more puzzled he became, until suddenly it "flashed upon my mind that a retreat was the object, and that the order for assailing the enemy was but a cover to the real design." (source)assailing = attacking
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I can't quite explain it, but I was assailed by doubts, and that feeling of disquiet never left me. (source)assailed = troubled
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Let three men assail him, or four, or five; it made no matter. He slew them one at a time, trusting in his steel to protect him from the others. As each foe fell he turned his wrath upon the next. (source)assail = attack
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"E'en when by Theseus' might assail'd, we took No ill revenge."† (source)
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Hygeia was assailing Piper with health care questions.† (source)
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Then the pain is no longer sharp but dull, and this too is with you always, so that you think of food many times a day and each time a terrible sickness assails you, and because you know this you try to avoid the thought, but you cannot, it is with you.† (source)
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So they continued repositioning their warriors for an opportune strike, moving their children and womenfolk in the remaining boats to the as yet unassailed moorings of Lonelywood, similar to the strategies of the refugee forces on the other two lakes.† (source)unassailed = not attackedstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unassailed means not and reverses the meaning of assailed. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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In other words, the head and face were those of a man who might move the world more readily than the world could move him—a man to be twice twelve times tortured into the shapeless cripple he was, without a groan, much less a confession; a man to yield his life, but never a purpose or a point; a man born in armor, and assailable only through his loves.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.
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55 That's the feud and hatred—as ween I 'twill happen— The anger of earthmen, that earls of the Swedemen Will visit on us, when they hear that our leader Lifeless is lying, he who longtime protected His hoard and kingdom 'gainst hating assailers, 60 Who on the fall of the heroes defended of yore The deed-mighty Scyldings,[4] did for the troopers What best did avail them, and further moreover {It is time for us to pay the last marks of respect to our lord.† (source)assailers = people who attack
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But thou, in duty's claims untaught, Thy breast with blinding passion fraught, Assailest me who still have clung To duty, with thy bitter tongue.† (source)standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-est" is dropped, so that where they said "Thou assailest" in older English, today we say "You assail."
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40 To Geat-folk and Danemen, the strife be suspended, The secret assailings they suffered in yore-days; And also that jewels be shared while I govern The wide-stretching kingdom, and that many shall visit Others o'er the ocean with excellent gift-gems: 45 The ring-adorned bark shall bring o'er the currents Presents and love-gifts.† (source)
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