Both Uses
assault
in
The Mill on the Floss
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- You will be thrown into the world some day, and then every rational satisfaction of your nature that you deny now will assault you like a savage appetite.†
Chpt 5.3 *assault = attack
- Your daughter is a witness that you've assaulted me.†
Chpt 5.7assaulted = attacked
Definitions:
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(1)
(assault) to attack someone or something physically or verbally; or to threaten violence
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)