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What does assail mean?

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Verb
  1. To attack violently using words or force.
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Although the open admissions policy was weakened, its critics continued to assail it.
Before I was locked down, 3 troublemakers entered my cell and commenced to verbally assail my ailing celly.
Hidden and bypassed infantry strong points were to conceal themselves and assail the flanks and rear of the German forces to further slow the German advance.
He was as impatient to assail his task and beat off the encumbering weight.
In 1820 Scott, with other prominent Tories, secretly financed the new Tory journal the Beacon, whose aim was to assail radical Whiggism.
It was the crest of the ridge, not the round top, that Lee wished to assail.

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