Definitions for assails

assails as·sail

Spelling: [uh-seyl]
IPA: /əˈseɪl/

Assails is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 80 anagrams from letters in assails (aailsss).

Definitions for assails

verb (used with object)

  1. to attack vigorously or violently; assault.
  2. to attack with arguments, criticism, ridicule, abuse, etc.:
  3. to undertake with the purpose of mastering:
  4. to impinge upon; make an impact on; beset:

Origin of assails

1175-1225; Middle English asaylen Old French asalir Late Latin assalīre, equivalent to Latin as- as- + salīre to leap, spring

Examples for assails

The crew were enjoined to assail him with insulting mockery.

At the turret we could assail Hahn, and replace him with Snap.

The only group that it was okay to assail, she says, was liberals.

Politics seems to assail Carvalho, forcing him to take up former cudgels and defend his corner.

What temptations would not assail her,—by what flatteries would she not be beset!

Besides, the real intention was not to assail you, but the people here who admitted you.'

If you assail me by the brain, I may attack you at the heart!

The partizans of abolition could assail the system at its foundation.

The darts of calamity may assail her on every side, but she is invulnerable to them all.

Days later, Al Gore suddenly surfaced after months of silence to assail President Obama for his failure to lead on climate change.

Word Value for assails
Scrable

6

Words with friends

7

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