Usually means: Attacking or criticizing vigorously and forcefully.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. assailing: Merriam-Webster
  2. assailing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. assailing: Vocabulary.com
  4. Assailing, assailing: Wordnik
  5. assailing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. assailing: Wiktionary
  7. Assailing, assailing: Dictionary.com
  8. assailing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Assailing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Assailing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. assailing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. assailing: FreeDictionary.org
  13. assailing: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Assailing: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See assail as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (assail)

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