Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to assail
Participle: assailed
Gerund: assailing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | assail |
| you | assail |
| he;she;it | assails |
| we | assail |
| you | assail |
| they | assail |
Perfect
| I | have assailed |
| you | have assailed |
| he;she;it | has assailed |
| we | have assailed |
| you | have assailed |
| they | have assailed |
Past
| I | assailed |
| you | assailed |
| he;she;it | assailed |
| we | assailed |
| you | assailed |
| they | assailed |
Pluperfect
| I | had assailed |
| you | had assailed |
| he;she;it | had assailed |
| we | had assailed |
| you | had assailed |
| they | had assailed |
Future
| I | will assail |
| you | will assail |
| he;she;it | will assail |
| we | will assail |
| you | will assail |
| they | will assail |
Future Perfect
| I | will have assailed |
| you | will have assailed |
| he;she;it | will have assailed |
| we | will have assailed |
| you | will have assailed |
| they | will have assailed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | assail |
| you | assail |
| he;she;it | assail |
| we | assail |
| you | assail |
| they | assail |
Perfect
| I | have assailed |
| you | have assailed |
| he;she;it | have assailed |
| we | have assailed |
| you | have assailed |
| they | have assailed |
Imperfect
| I | assailed |
| you | assailed |
| he;she;it | assailed |
| we | assailed |
| you | assailed |
| they | assailed |
Pluperfect
| I | had assailed |
| you | had assailed |
| he;she;it | had assailed |
| we | had assailed |
| you | had assailed |
| they | had assailed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would assail |
| you | would assail |
| he;she;it | would assail |
| we | would assail |
| you | would assail |
| they | would assail |
Perfect
| I | would have assailed |
| you | would have assailed |
| he;she;it | would have assailed |
| we | would have assailed |
| you | would have assailed |
| they | would have assailed |
Imperative
| you | assail |
| we | Let's assail |
| you | assail |
Verbs conjugated like 'assail'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'assail'
assaile,
assain,
assoil,
wassail,
abseil,
assart,
assault,
assay,
aumail,
avail,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- assault
- attack, beset, storm, charge, raid, molest
- revile
- denounce, vituperate, belabor, criticize, impugn, malign, vilify, abuse
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. c.1230, from O.Fr.
asaillir, from V.L.
*adsalire "to leap at," from L.
ad- "at" +
salire "to leap" (see salient).
2. From Middle English assailen, from Old French assaillir, assalir, from Late Latin assalīre, from Latin ad (“at, towards”) + salīre (“jump”). See also assault. See: Middle English '
assailen', Old French '
assalir'.
Sample Sentences
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Muggers assailed them as they entered an alley.
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Our ears were assailed by her joyous efforts on her new saxophone.
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With greedy force he gan the fort assayle, / Whereof he weend possesse soone to bee, / And win rich spoile of ransackt chastitee. [1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:]
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[L]et us once again assail your ears, / That are so fortified against our story, / What we two nights have seen. [c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:]
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"Unhappy woman!" he observed to himself as he walked down the platform of Templecombe station; "for the next six months or so those children will assail her in public with demands for an improper story!" [1914, Saki [pseudonym; Hector Hugh Munro], “The Story-teller”, in Beasts and Super-Beasts […], London: John Lane, The Bodley Head […], →OCLC, page 238:]
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2007, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Wizard of the Crow, Nairobo: East African Educational Publishers, Book 2, Chapter 3, p. 64,
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He did not like being in crowds, foul smells galore assailing his nostrils.
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"Yes," he said, half musing to himself, "I knew it must exist: the one explanation that accounts for everything and cannot be assailed. We have reached the bed-rock of truth at last." [1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC:]
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We got married immediately after I finished my work […] which should have been the happiest day of my life. […] But, it was not my happiest day. I was assailed by doubts. [1942, Zora Neale Hurston, chapter 14, in Dust Tracks on a Road, New York, N.Y.: Arno Press and The New York Times, published 1969, page 258:]