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Definition of "assails" []

  • Third-person singular simple present indicative form of assail. (verb)

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Use "assails" in a sentence
  • "For -- justifying his exhortation, "Looking unto Jesus." consider -- by way of comparison with yourselves, so the Greek. contradiction -- unbelief, and every kind of opposition (Ac 28: 19). sinners -- Sin assails us."
  • "It is widely assumed that this dilemma assails minorities everywhere, because they feel abandoned and marooned in the sea of majoritarianism but even majorities often are at a loss."
  • "The time to worry will be when the same unwarranted self-pity assails Cameron, Clegg and Osborne."