Assailant Definition

ə-sālənt
assailants
noun
assailants
A person who attacks another.
American Heritage
One who assails or attacks; attacker.
Webster's New World

Someone who attacks or assails another violently, or criminally; an attacker.

Wiktionary

(figuratively, by extension) A hostile critic or opponent.

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Synonyms:
adjective
Assailing; attacking.
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Other Word Forms of Assailant

Noun

Singular:
assailant
Plural:
assailants

Origin of Assailant

  • Old French asaillant, from the verb asaillir (“to jump on”), from Latin assaliō, itself from ad (“to, towards”) + saliō (“to jump”).

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Assailant Sentence Examples

  • I heard my assailant searching from room to room.

  • Almost immediately, the room erupted with a gunshot and both my assailant and I dropped to the floor.

  • When I swallowed, my assailant was jamming in his knife anew.

  • The only item of information I'd withheld from Detective Jackson was that the assailant had asked me where everybody else was.

  • The mother will defend her young with the utmost desperation against any assailant, and ha s p been known to sacrifice her own life rather than desert them.

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Words Starting With

AASASS

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TNTANT

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