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I was assaulted by someone wearing a mask.assaulted = attacked
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It is an assault on free speech.assault = attack
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Assault, theft, and disturbing the peace. (source)Assault = the crime of physically attacking someone
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A nonhot boy stares at you relentlessly and it is, at best, awkward and, at worst, a form of assault. (source)assault = attack
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He knew the assault would resume as soon as the bus got rolling, and he braced grimly for Dana's next blow. (source)
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Under the pitiless double assaults of her mother and grandmother, the cottage where she lived was always squeaking clean, mopped and swept and scoured into limp submission. (source)assaults = attacks (figuratively)
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Second thing you can do is stay away from my cook or I'll have you up for assault- (source)assault = the crime of threatening or attempting to physically harm someone
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They're assaulted by…what? (source)assaulted = attacked
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there were about a hundred gun assaults last year, country wide. (source)assaults = attacks
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They did know ... the tactics of assaulting the enemy's position on a star. (source)assaulting = attacking
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The assaulter becomes the assaulted.† (source)assaulter = someone who attacks
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A man is assaulted, fears present death, from which he sees not how to escape, but by wounding him that assaulteth him; If he wound him to death, this is no Crime; because no man is supposed at the making of a Common-wealth, to have abandoned the defence of his life, or limbes, where the Law cannot arrive time enough to his assistance.† (source)assaulteth = attacksstandard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She assaulteth" in older English, today we say "She assaults."
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I did my best not to give away anything of my exasperation on discovering that a task I had thought all but behind me was in fact still there unassaulted before me.† (source)unassaulted = not attackedstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unassaulted means not and reverses the meaning of assaulted. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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"General," Longstreet said slowly, "it is my considered opinion that a frontal assault here would be a disaster." (source)assault = attack
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This is the same guy that Mike Harris assaulted in the bar? (source)assaulted = attacked
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She loved her papa, Hans Hubermann, and even her foster mother, despite the abusages and verbal assaults.† (source)assaults = attacks
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