Usually means: Attacked or criticized very strongly.
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  1. assailed: Merriam-Webster
  2. assailed: Collins English Dictionary
  3. assailed: Vocabulary.com
  4. Assailed, assailed: Wordnik
  5. assailed: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. assailed: Wiktionary
  7. Assailed, assailed: Dictionary.com
  8. assailed: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Assailed: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Assailed: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. assailed: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. assailed: FreeDictionary.org
  13. assailed: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. assailed: Legal dictionary

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▸ verb:  (transitive) To attack with harsh words or violent force (also figuratively).
▸ Also see assail


Opposite:
defended

Types:
assaulted, attacked, besieged, beset, more...

Phrases:
assailed on all sides, more...

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Opposite:
defended

Types:
assaulted, attacked, besieged, beset, more...

Phrases:
assailed on all sides, more...

Colors:
    dark red,     crimson,     scarlet,     maroon,     burgundy, more...




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