0 to attack or torment -- overfalde; angribe; plage
He was assailed with questions
She assailed by doubts about whether she should marry Claude.
He also assails the notion that the ability to recite details of the parliamentary procedure has much to do with the political awareness.
Liberals continued to assail the regressive financing, while conservatives worried that these taxes would bankroll an unchecked expansion of government.
Such an ideological pincer movement cannot easily be assailed with the common sense of policy making.
The author assails the publication of company-sponsored meta-analyses, which prohibit independent analysis of data.
Under this scenario, the worth of their patent will be useless if it is assailed by an aggressive black market.
Such assumptions are assailed as idealistic and static.
In the ' ' culture wars ' ' of the 1980s, the multicultural approach was assailed for exaggerating racial and ethnic differences and thereby undermining common bonds.
With the apparent complicity of the authorities, women were threatened, assailed and harassed into compliance.
