violent attack, especially a sudden one
make an assault on
"The mugger assaulted the woman"
"Nightmares assailed him regularly"
"The woman was raped on her way home at night"
"The editors of the left-leaning paper attacked the new House Speaker"
The imperial armies disintegrated quickly under direct assault.
出自: F. Fitzgerald
The pastry resisted the most determined assaults without showing any sign of fracture.
出自: fig.
But the Iewes which beleeued not..gathered a company, and..assaulted the house of Iason.
出自:Bible (AV): Acts
George suggested walking back to Henley and assaulting a policeman, and so getting a night's lodging in the station-house.
出自: J. K. Jerome