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Battle :: Battle (v. t.) To assail in battle; to fight.

Assail :: Assail (v. t.) To attack morally, or with a view to produce changes in the feelings, character, conduct, existing usages, institutions; to attack by words, hostile influence, etc.; as, to assail one with appeals, arguments, abuse, ridicule, and the like..

Assailable :: Assailable (a.) Capable of being assailed.

Vulnerable :: Vulnerable (a.) Liable to injury; subject to be affected injuriously; assailable; as, a vulnerable reputation..

Offensive :: Offensive (a.) Making the first attack; assailant; aggressive; hence, used in attacking; -- opposed to defensive; as, an offensive war; offensive weapons..

Wassail :: Wassail (a.) Of or pertaining to wassail, or to a wassail; convivial; as, a wassail bowl..

Wassail :: Wassail (n.) An occasion on which such good wishes are expressed in drinking; a drinking bout; a carouse.

Assailment :: Assailment (n.) The act or power of assailing; attack; assault.

Tenable :: Tenable (a.) Capable of being held, naintained, or defended, as against an assailant or objector, or againts attempts to take or process; as, a tenable fortress, a tenable argument..

Armada :: Armada (v. t.) A fleet of armed ships; a squadron. Specifically, the Spanish fleet which was sent to assail England, a. d. 1558..

Assassinate :: Assassinate (v. t.) To assail with murderous intent; hence, by extended meaning, to maltreat exceedingly..

Assailant :: Assailant (a.) Assailing; attacking.

Attack :: Attack (v. t.) To assail with unfriendly speech or writing; to begin a controversy with; to attempt to overthrow or bring into disrepute, by criticism or satire; to censure; as, to attack a man, or his opinions, in a pamphlet..

Impugn :: Impugn (v. t.) To attack by words or arguments; to contradict; to assail; to call in question; to make insinuations against; to gainsay; to oppose.

Assailing :: Assailing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Assai.

Machicolation :: Machicolation (n.) The act of discharging missiles or pouring burning or melted substances upon assailants through such apertures.

Bepommel :: Bepommel (v. t.) To pommel; to beat, as with a stick; figuratively, to assail or criticise in conversation, or in writing..

Pelt :: Pelt (v. t.) To strike with something thrown or driven; to assail with pellets or missiles, as, to pelt with stones; pelted with hail..

Attack :: Attack (v. t.) To fall upon with force; to assail, as with force and arms; to assault..

Wassail :: Wassail (v. i.) To hold a wassail; to carouse.

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