Definitions for assailant

assailant as·sail·ant

Spelling: [uh-sey-luh nt]
IPA: /əˈseɪ lənt/

Assailant is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 281 anagrams from letters in assailant (aaailnsst).

Definitions for assailant

noun

  1. a person who attacks.

adjective

  1. Archaic. assailing; attacking; hostile.

Origin of assailant

From the Middle French word assaillant, dating back to 1525-35. See assail, -ant

Examples for assailant

Depending on the setting this allows the gamer to actually listen to his assailant.

Somebody yanks Chan and elbows him and he is momentarily distracted trying to apprehend his assailant.

He parried the blow on his sabre, and with the flat of it knocked his assailant senseless.

The assailant must say "This hurts me more than it hurts you."

Thankfully, Linda was not injured and the assailant, a white male, was arrested.

My assailant will remain unpunished, and life on this campus will continue its course as if nothing had happened.

The rationale in those cases, he said, is that DNA should be used to identify the assailant.

He did not know why she told him all that, and he could not learn from her anything about his assailant.

He could not even guess at his assailant, much less reach him.

She grasped the arm of her assailant and struggled with all her might, but to no purpose.

Word Value for assailant
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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