Usually means: Person who attacks another physically.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. assailant: Merriam-Webster
  2. assailant: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. assailant: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. assailant: Collins English Dictionary
  5. assailant: Vocabulary.com
  6. Assailant, assailant: Wordnik
  7. assailant: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. assailant: Wiktionary
  9. assailant: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. assailant: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. assailant: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. assailant: Dictionary.com
  13. assailant: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. The Assailant: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Assailant: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. assailant: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. assailant: Rhymezone
  18. Assailant: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. assailant: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. assailant: FreeDictionary.org
  21. assailant: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. assailant: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. assailant: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  24. assailant: Merriam-Webster

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  1. assailant: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
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  3. assailant: Legal dictionary

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  1. assailant: Encyclopedia

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  1. assailant: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (assailant)

▸ noun:  Someone who attacks or assails another violently, or criminally.
▸ noun:  (figuratively, by extension) A hostile critic or opponent.
▸ adjective:  Assailing; attacking.

Similar:
attacker, aggressor, violent, assaultive, assault, attempt, affray, accost, assassin, axing, more...

Opposite:
victim, target

Types:
mugger, robber, thief, pickpocket, burglar, more...

Phrases:
helpful assailant, more...

Adjectives:
unknown, first, new, alleged, unseen, second, formidable, invisible, potential, armed, unidentified

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Similar:
attacker, aggressor, violent, assaultive, assault, attempt, affray, accost, assassin, axing, more...

Opposite:
victim, target

Types:
mugger, robber, thief, pickpocket, burglar, more...

Phrases:
helpful assailant, more...

Adjectives:
unknown, first, new, alleged, unseen, second, formidable, invisible, potential, armed, unidentified

Colors:
    black,     red,     dark gray,     blood red,     charcoal, more...



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