0 past simple and past participle of assail
1 to attack someone violently or criticize someone strongly:
Such an ideological pincer movement cannot easily be assailed with the common sense of policy making.
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.
Assailed by the 'forces of darkness', 'civic-minded' citizens rallied to win back control of the city.
Once the economy's lifeblood, the industry is now assailed by the effects of trade liberalisation and threatened loss of protection in an increasingly competitive global commodity market.
Kronecker, in the nineteenth century, assailed set theory as too abstract and rejected all the infinitary mathematics built on its base.
