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Initialism of assault and battery. [(law, idiomatic) The combination of two violent crimes: assault (the threat of violence) and battery (physical violence). This legal distinction exists only in jurisdictions that distinguish assault as threatened violence rather than actual violence.]
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(US criminal law) Assault with disregard for the value of life, or with a deadly weapon.
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Someone who attacks or assails another violently, or criminally.
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A violent verbal attack, for example with insults, criticism, and the like
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(law, idiomatic) The combination of two violent crimes: assault (the threat of violence) and battery (physical violence). This legal distinction exists only in jurisdictions that distinguish assault as threatened violence rather than actual violence.
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One who commits assault.
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(psychiatry, criminology) A person who assaults others.
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(law) The infliction of unlawful physical violence on a person, legally distinguished from assault, which includes the threat of impending violence.
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An act of intimidating a person to do something, especially such repeated coercion.
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(dialect) Alternative form of come-hither [An act intended to attract sexual interest.]
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(transitive) To trick or mislead.
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An act of consuming agricultural resources (crops, livestock), especially as plunder.
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(zoology) The act of one organism listening for another's calls, so as to exploit them.
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To take pleasure in something; to have feelings of enjoyment.
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One who, or that which, enrages.
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(Internet slang, emphatic) hate
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Alternative form of herriment [(Scotland, obsolete) harassment; depredation]
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(transitive, intransitive, US, colloquial) To deceive; to be deceptive.
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(transitive) To employ a Kafkatrap against (someone).
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To sexually assault or sexually harass.
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(transitive, seduction community) To express or imply a negative value judgement of someone to make them desire one's approval, especially when trying to pick up a date.
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(idiomatic) One whose inconvenient interruption prevents the completion of something important.
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Someone who commits personal attacks.
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The use of excessive, unjustified force (typically of a physical nature, but also including verbal abuse and psychological intimidation) by a police officer while carrying out law enforcement duties.
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The act or practice of rioting.
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(obsolete, transitive) To make savage.
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One who corrupts, mars, or renders useless.
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Pronunciation spelling of swearing.
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A person, place, or thing that is frequently attacked, criticized, or ridiculed.
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(transitive) To make a travesty of; to parody.
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Rare spelling of trouble causer. [Synonym of troublemaker]
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Rare spelling of trouble causer. [Synonym of troublemaker]
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One who causes trouble, especially one who does so deliberately.
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(obsolete) one who vails
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Often used other than figuratively or idiomatically: an assault that is verbal.
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(obsolete) ravishment; rape; violation
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