<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a sudden, violent attack; onslaught: an assault on tradition.</li><li>an unlawful physical attack upon another; an attempt or offer to do violence to another, with or without battery, as by holding a stone or club in a threatening manner.</li><li>the stage of close combat in an attack.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>to make an assault upon; attack; assail.</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>