transcription, транскрипция: [ əseɪl ]
( assails, assailing, assailed)
1.
If someone assails you, they criticize you strongly. ( WRITTEN )
The opposition’s newspapers assail the government each day...
= attack
VERB : V n
2.
If someone assails you, they attack you violently. ( WRITTEN )
Her husband was assailed by a young man with a knife in a Glasgow park.
= attack
VERB : V n
3.
If you are assailed by something unpleasant such as fears or problems, you are greatly troubled by a large number of them. ( WRITTEN )
She is assailed by self-doubt and emotional insecurity.
= beset
VERB : usu passive , be V-ed