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assault

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  1. battery                2. attack                
 
1. as.sault \*-'so.lt\ n [ME assaut, fr. OF, fr. (assumed) VL assaltus, fr. 
   assaltus,]pp. of assalire 1: a violent physical or verbal attack  2a: an 
   apparently violent attempt or a willful offer with force or violence to do 
   hurt to another without the actual doing of the hurt threatened (as by 
   lifting the fist in a threatening manner) 2b: RAPE 
2. assault vt 1: to make an assault upon  2: RAPE  : to make an assault