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assailingverbpresent participle of assail to criticize harshly and usually publiclythe union organizers assailed the chemical company for failing to provide a safe working environment abusing, attacking, bashing, belaboring, blasting, castigating, excoriating, jumping (on), lambasting, potshotting, savaging, scathing, slamming, trashing, vituperating berating, haranguing, harassing, harrying, reviling, scolding, whippingblaspheming, cursing, execrating, imprecating, profaningaffronting, insulting, slurringaspersing, bad-mouthing, belittling, blackguarding, disparaging, putting downlibeling(or libelling), slandering, traducing, vilifyingchastising, chiding, criticizing, lacing (into), rebuking, reprimandingfulminating, lashing (out) beating up on, lighting into, sailing into, tying into acclaiming, commending, complimenting, hailing, lauding, praising to take sudden, violent action againstthe small birds assailed the larger one that had threatened their nest assaulting, attacking, besetting, bushwhacking, charging, descending (on or upon), going in (on), jumping (on), pouncing (on or upon), raiding, rushing, setting on, siccing(also sicking), storming, striking, trashing, turning (on) bum-rushing, ganging up (on), mobbing, swarmingmugging, robbingambuscading, ambushing, surprising(also surprizing), waylayingblitzing, bombarding, bombing, nukingbarraging, cannonading, cannoningbanging away (at), battering, buffeting, plasteringbeleaguering, besieging, pressingharrying, looting, pillaging, plundering, ravaging, sackingforaying, invading, overrunningenveloping, flanking beating up on, flying at, going at, lighting into, pitching into, rounding on, setting at, setting upon, tearing into covering, defending, guarding, protecting, securing, shielding |