英和和英

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /əˈsɒlt/, /əˈsɔːlt/
• (米国発音) IPA: /əˈsɔlt/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA: /əˈsɑlt/
• • (regional, California) IPA: /əˈsʌlt/
• 韻: -ɔːlt, -ɒlt, (regional, California) -ʌlt

名詞

assault (countable and uncountable, plural assaults)

1. A violent onset or attack with physical means, for example blows, weapons, etc.

   The army made an assault on the enemy.

   • 1855–1858, William H[ickling] Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson, and Company, →OCLC:

     The Spanish general prepared to renew the assault.

   • 1814, William Wordsworth, The Excursion, Book 5:

     Unshaken bears the assault / Of their most dreaded foe, the strong southwest.

   • 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Batarians Codex entry:

     Hostilities peaked with the Skyllian Blitz of 2176, an attack on the human capital of Elysium by batarian-funded pirates and slavers. In 2178, the Alliance retaliated with a crushing assault on the moon of Torfan, long used as a staging base by batarian-backed criminals. In the aftermath, the batarians retreated into their own systems, and are now rarely seen in Citadel space.

2. A violent verbal attack, for example with insults, criticism, and the like

   She launched a written assault on the opposition party.

3. (crime law) An attempt to commit battery: a violent attempt, or willful effort with force or violence, to do hurt to another, but without necessarily touching the person, such as by raising a fist in a threatening manner, or by striking at the person and missing.
4. (singular only, law) The crime whose action is such an attempt.
5. (tort law) An act that causes someone to apprehend imminent bodily harm (such as brandishing a weapon).
6. (singular only, law) The tort whose action is such an act.
7. (fencing) A non-competitive combat between two fencers.

使用する際の注意点

Depending on jurisdiction, assault can also refer to the physical act, becoming more or less synonymous with battery. In some jurisdictions, a distinction between assault and battery is made.

同意語

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等位語

• battery

派生語

動詞

assault (third-person singular simple present assaults, present participle assaulting, simple past and past participle assaulted)

1. (transitive) To attack, physically or figuratively; to assail.

   Tom was accused of assaulting another man outside a nightclub.

   Loud music assaulted our ears as we entered the building.

2. (transitive) To threaten or harass. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

派生語

参照

• “assault”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.