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# assailant

«assailant» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person who attacks someone physically** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (an assailant, assailants)

### meaning for a pupil

(formal, news and police) An assailant is a person who attacks someone physically. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assailant/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

A formal word used in news, police reports and court cases, not in everyday chat. It tells the reader someone was attacked and this is the attacker. Phrases: «the assailant fled», «an unknown assailant», «describe the assailant».

### examples

- The assailant ran off before the police arrived. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assailant/#x1)
- The victim could not see the assailant's face. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assailant/#x2)
- Police are searching for the assailant. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assailant/#x3)
- The shopkeeper fought off his assailant. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assailant/#x4)
- The two assailants were later arrested. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assailant/#x5)
- Witnesses described the assailant as tall with a red hat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assailant/#x6)
- He now gave the animals in charge of his friend Abderus, and made such a furious onslaught on his assailants that they turned and fled. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assailant/#x7)

### note

Countable noun; formal. Everyday words: attacker, mugger. Related: assail (attack), assault (an attack). Pronounced a-SAY-lent.

### In the corpora

- [Make passing great Thy mercies, O Thou that savest by Thy right hand from assailants them that take refuge in Thee.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.202/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «assailant» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assailant/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.