assault

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• UK: /əˈsɒlt/
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• UK: /əˈsɔːlt/
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• US: /əˈsɔlt/
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• cot-caught-merger: /əˈsɑlt/
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• California, regional: /əˈsʌlt/
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• rhymes with -ɒlt
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• rhymes with (regional, California) -ʌlt
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• CMU ARPABET: AH0 S AO1 L T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English assaut, from Old French noun assaut, derived from the past participle of the verb assalir, from Late Latin assalīre, from Latin ad (“at, towards”) + salīre (“jump”). See also assail. Spelling Latinized around 1530 to add an l.

168 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: sulm — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Arabic: اِعْتِدَاء (iʕtidāʔ) — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Arabic: حَمْلَة (ḥamla) — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Arabic: هُجُوم (hujūm) — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Arabic: هَجْمَة (hajma) — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Armenian: հարձակում (harjakum) — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Azerbaijani: basqın — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Belarusian: напа́д (napád) — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Belarusian: нападзе́нне (napadzjénnje) — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Belarusian: нападзе́ньне (napadzjénʹnje) — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Bengali: আক্রমণ (akromon) — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Bulgarian: ата́ка (atáka) — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Bulgarian: нападе́ние (napadénie) — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Bulgarian: щурм (šturm) — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Catalan: assalt — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Chinese Mandarin: 突擊 /突击 (tújí) — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Chinese Mandarin: 攻擊 /攻击 (gōngjī, gōngjí) — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Czech: útok — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Czech: přepadení — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Czech: napadení — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Danish: overfald — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Danish: angreb — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Dutch: aanranding — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Dutch: overval — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Dutch: aanval — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Esperanto: atenci — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Estonian: kallaletung — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Estonian: rünnak — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Finnish: hyökkäys — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Finnish: päällekarkaus — violent onset or attack with physical means
• French: assaut — violent onset or attack with physical means
• French: agression — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Georgian: თავდასხმა (tavdasxma) — violent onset or attack with physical means
• German: Anschlag — violent onset or attack with physical means
• German: Überfall — violent onset or attack with physical means
• German: Angriff — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Greek: προσβολή (prosvolí) — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Ancient Greek: ὁρμή (hormḗ) — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Ancient Greek: προσβολή (prosbolḗ) — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Hebrew: תְּקִיפָה (t'kifá) — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Hindi: आक्रमण (ākramaṇ) — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Hindi: प्रहार (prahār) — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Hindi: धावा (dhāvā) — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Hungarian: támadás — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Hungarian: roham — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Hungarian: ostrom — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Icelandic: áhlaup — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Italian: assalto — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Italian: attacco — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Italian: aggressione — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Italian: arrembaggio — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Italian: all'arrembaggio — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Japanese: 襲撃 (shūgeki) — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Japanese: 突撃 (totsugeki) — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Japanese: 攻撃 (kōgeki) — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Japanese: 暴行 (bōkō) — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Kabuverdianu: agredí — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Kabuverdianu: agridi — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Korean: 돌격 (dolgyeok) — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Korean: 공격 (gonggyeok) — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Korean: 폭행 (pokhaeng) — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Latin: impetus — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Latin: assultus — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Latvian: uzbrukums — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Latvian: trieciens — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Lithuanian: užpuolimas — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Macedonian: напад (napad) — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Malayalam: ആക്രമം (ākramaṁ) — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Norwegian Bokmål: overfall — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Norwegian Bokmål: angrep — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Occitan: assalt — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Pashto: حمله (hamla) — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Pashto: هجوم (hojum) — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Iranian Persian: یورِش (yureš) — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Iranian Persian: تَجاوُز (tajâvoz) — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Iranian Persian: حَمْلِه (hamle) — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Iranian Persian: هُجوم (hojum) — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Polish: napaść — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Polish: szturm — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Portuguese: agressão — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Portuguese: ataque — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Portuguese: assalto — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Romanian: asalt — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Romanian: atac — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Russian: нападе́ние (napadénije) — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Russian: ата́ка (atáka) — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Russian: штурм (šturm) — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Serbo-Croatian: на́пад — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Serbo-Croatian: nápad — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Slovak: útok — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Slovak: prepadnutie — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Slovak: napadnutie — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Slovene: napad — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Spanish: asalto — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Spanish: acometimiento — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Spanish: agresión — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Spanish: ataque — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Swedish: överfall — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Swedish: angrepp — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Swedish: attack — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Tagalog: pagsalakay — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Tagalog: panlalaban — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Tajik: ҳамла (hamla) — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Tajik: юриш (yuriš) — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Tajik: ҳуҷум (hujum) — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Tamil: தாக்குதல் (tākkutal) — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Turkish: saldırı — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Ukrainian: на́пад (nápad) — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Ukrainian: штурм (šturm) — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Urdu: حَمْلَہ (hamla) — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Urdu: یُورِش (yūriś) — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Walloon: assåt — violent onset or attack with physical means
• Finnish: hyökkäys — violent onset or attack with moral weapons
• Portuguese: agressão — violent onset or attack with moral weapons
• Portuguese: ataque — violent onset or attack with moral weapons
• Finnish: pahoinpitelyn yritys — legal: violent attempt, or willful effort with force or violence to hurt another
• Italian: aggressione — legal: violent attempt, or willful effort with force or violence to hurt another
• Japanese: 暴行 (bōkō) — legal: violent attempt, or willful effort with force or violence to hurt another
• Korean: 폭행 (pokhaeng) — legal: violent attempt, or willful effort with force or violence to hurt another
• Portuguese: agressão — legal: violent attempt, or willful effort with force or violence to hurt another
• Finnish: pahoinpitelyn yritys — legal: crime whose action is such an attempt
• Italian: aggressione — legal: crime whose action is such an attempt
• Japanese: 暴行 (bōkō) — legal: crime whose action is such an attempt
• Portuguese: agressão — legal: crime whose action is such an attempt
• Finnish: pahoinpitely — legal: act that causes someone to apprehend imminent bodily harm
• Finnish: pahoinpitely — legal: tort whose action is such an act
• Portuguese: assalto — fencing: non-competitive combat
• Bulgarian: атакувам (atakuvam) — to attack
• Bulgarian: щурмувам (šturmuvam) — to attack
• Chinese Mandarin: 攻擊 /攻击 (gōngjī, gōngjí) — to attack
• Dutch: aanranden — to attack
• Dutch: vergrijpen — to attack
• Finnish: hyökätä — to attack
• Finnish: käydä päälle — to attack
• Finnish: käydä kimppuun — to attack
• French: attaquer — to attack
• French: agresser — to attack
• German: überfallen — to attack
• German: angreifen — to attack
• Hindi: आक्रमण (ākramaṇ) — to attack
• Hungarian: megtámad — to attack
• Hungarian: megrohamoz — to attack
• Hungarian: ostromol — to attack
• Hungarian: megostromol — to attack
• Italian: attaccare — to attack
• Italian: aggredire — to attack
• Italian: assalire — to attack
• Italian: molestare — to attack
• Japanese: 襲う (osou) — to attack
• Japanese: 攻める (semeru) — to attack
• Japanese: 襲撃する (shūgeki suru) — to attack
• Latin: assultō — to attack
• Latin: incessō — to attack
• Māori: taiapu — to attack
• Māori: haupatu — to attack
• Norman: assauter — to attack
• Polish: napadać — to attack
• Polish: napaść — to attack
• Portuguese: agredir — to attack
• Russian: напада́ть (napadátʹ) — to attack
• Russian: напа́сть (napástʹ) — to attack
• Russian: атакова́ть (atakovátʹ) — to attack
• Russian: штурмова́ть (šturmovátʹ) — to attack
• Spanish: asaltar — to attack
• Spanish: atacar — to attack
• Spanish: agredir — to attack
• Tamil: தாக்கு (tākku) — to attack
• Walloon: assåder — to attack