Synonyms of the word

assail

• v. To attack violently using words or force.

assault

• n. A violent onset or attack with physical means, for example blows, weapons, etc.
• n. A violent onset or attack with moral weapons, for example words, arguments, appeals, and the like.
• n. (criminal law) An attempt to commit battery: a violent attempt, or willful effort with force or violence,…
• n. (singular only, law) The crime whose action is such an attempt.
• n. (tort law) An act that causes someone to apprehend imminent bodily harm.
• n. (singular only, law) The tort whose action is such an act.
• n. (fencing) A non-competitive combat between two fencers.
• v. To attack, threaten or harass.

attack

• n. An attempt to cause damage, injury to, or death of opponent or enemy.
• n. An attempt to detract from the worth or credibility of, a person, position, idea, object, or thing, by…
• n. A time in which one attacks. The offence of a battle.
• n. (cricket) Collectively, the bowlers of a cricket side.
• n. (volleyball) Any contact with the ball other than a serve or block which sends the ball across the plane…
• n. (lacrosse) The three attackmen on the field or all the attackmen of a team.
• n. (medicine) The sudden onset of a disease or condition.
• n. An active episode of a chronic or recurrent disease.
• n. (music) The onset of a musical note, particularly with respect to the strength (and duration) of that…
• n. (audio) The amount of time it takes for the volume of an audio signal to go from zero to maximum level…
• v. (transitive) To apply violent force to someone or something.
• v. (transitive) To aggressively challenge a person, idea, etc., with words (particularly in newspaper headlines,…
• v. (transitive) To begin to affect; to act upon injuriously or destructively; to begin to decompose or waste.
• v. (transitive) To deal with something in a direct way; to set to work upon.
• v. (transitive, cricket) To aim balls at the batsman’s wicket.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To set a field, or bowl in a manner designed to get wickets.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To bat aggressively, so as to score runs quickly.
• v. (soccer) To move forward in an active attempt to score a point, as opposed to trying not to concede.
• v. (cycling) To accelerate quickly in an attempt to get ahead of the other riders.

contend

• v. To strive in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight.
• v. To struggle or exert oneself to obtain or retain possession of, or to defend.
• v. To strive in debate; to engage in discussion; to dispute; to argue.

criticise

• v. To evaluate (something), and judge its merits and faults.
• v. To find fault (with something).

criticize

• v. To find fault (with something).
• v. To evaluate (something), assessing its merits and faults.

fight

• v. (intransitive) To contend in physical conflict, either singly or in war, battle etc.
• v. (intransitive) To strive for; to campaign or contend for success.
• v. (transitive) To conduct or engage in (battle, warfare etc.).
• v. (transitive) To engage in combat with; to oppose physically, to contest with.
• v. (transitive) To try to overpower; to fiercely counteract.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To cause to fight; to manage or manoeuvre in a fight.
• n. An occasion of fighting.
• n. (archaic) A battle between opposing armies.
• n. A physical confrontation or combat between two or more people or groups.
• n. (sports) A boxing or martial arts match.
• n. A conflict, possibly nonphysical, with opposing ideas or forces; strife.
• n. The will or ability to fight.
• n. (obsolete) A screen for the combatants in ships.

knock

• n. An abrupt rapping sound, as from an impact of a hard object against wood.
• n. An impact.
• n. (figuratively) criticism.
• n. (cricket) a batsman's innings.
• n. (automotive) Preignition, a type of abnormal combustion occurring in spark ignition engines caused by…
• n. (cycling) Synonym of hunger knock.
• v. (intransitive) To rap one's knuckles against something, especially wood.
• v. (transitive, dated) To strike for admittance; to rap upon, as a door.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, dated) To bump or impact.
• v. (colloquial) To denigrate, undervalue.
• v. (soccer) To pass, kick a ball towards another player.
• v. (slang, dated, Britain) To impress strongly or forcibly; to astonish; to move to admiration or applause.

round

• adj. (physical) Shape.
• adj. Complete, whole, not lacking.
• adj. (of a number) Convenient for rounding other numbers to; for example, ending in a zero.
• adj. (linguistics) Pronounced with the lips drawn together.
• adj. Outspoken; plain and direct; unreserved; not mincing.
• adj. Finished; polished; not defective or abrupt; said of authors or their writing style.
• adj. Consistent; fair; just; applied to conduct.
• adj. Large in magnitude.
• n. A circular or spherical object or part of an object.
• n. A circular or repetitious route.
• n. A general outburst from a group of people at an event.
• n. A song that is sung by groups of people with each subset of people starting at a different time.
• n. A serving of something; a portion of something to each person in a group.
• n. A single individual portion or dose of medicine.
• n. One sandwich (two full slices of bread with filling).
• n. (art) A long-bristled, circular-headed paintbrush used in oil and acrylic painting.
• n. A firearm cartridge, bullet, or any individual ammunition projectile. Originally referring to the spherical…
• n. (sports) One of the specified pre-determined segments of the total time of a sport event, such as a boxing…
• n. (sports) A stage in a competition.
• n. (sports) In some sports, e.g. golf or showjumping: one complete way around the course.
• n. (engineering, drafting, CAD) A rounded relief or cut at an edge, especially an outside edge, added for…
• n. A strip of material with a circular face that covers an edge, gap, or crevice for decorative, sanitary,…
• n. (butchery) The hindquarters of a bovine.
• n. (dated) A rung, as of a ladder.
• n. A crosspiece that joins and braces the legs of a chair.
• n. A series of changes or events ending where it began; a series of like events recurring in continuance;…
• n. A course of action or conduct performed by a number of persons in turn, or one after another, as if seated…
• n. A series of duties or tasks which must be performed in turn, and then repeated.
• n. A circular dance.
• n. Rotation, as in office; succession.
• n. A general discharge of firearms by a body of troops in which each soldier fires once.
• n. An assembly; a group; a circle.
• n. A brewer's vessel in which the fermentation is concluded, the yeast escaping through the bunghole.
• n. (archaic) A vessel filled, as for drinking.
• n. (nautical) A round-top.
• n. A round of beef.
• prep. (rare in US) Alternative form of around.
• adv. Alternative form of around.
• v. (transitive) To shape something into a curve.
• v. (intransitive) To become shaped into a curve.
• v. (with "out") To finish; to complete; to fill out.
• v. (intransitive) To approximate a number, especially a decimal number by the closest whole number.
• v. (transitive) To turn past a boundary.
• v. (intransitive) To turn and attack someone or something (used with on).
• v. (transitive, baseball) To advance to home plate.
• v. (transitive) To go round, pass, go past.
• v. To encircle; to encompass.
• v. To grow round or full; hence, to attain to fullness, completeness, or perfection.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To go round, as a guard; to make the rounds.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To go or turn round; to wheel about.
• v. (intransitive, archaic or dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To speak in a low tone; whisper; speak…
• v. (transitive, archaic or dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To address or speak to in a whisper, utter…
• n. (archaic or dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A whisper; whispering.
• n. (archaic or dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Discourse; song.

snipe

• n. Any of various limicoline game birds of the genera Gallinago, Lymnocryptes and Coenocorypha in the family…
• n. A fool; a blockhead.
• n. A shot fired from a concealed place.
• n. (naval slang) A member of the engineering department on a ship.
• v. (intransitive) To hunt snipe.
• v. (intransitive) To shoot at individuals from a concealed place.
• v. (intransitive) (by extension) To shoot with a sniper rifle.
• v. (transitive) To watch a timed online auction and place a winning bid against (the current high bidder)…
• v. (transitive) To nose (a log) to make it drag or slip easily in skidding.
• n. (slang) A cigarette butt.
• n. An animated promotional logo during a television show.
• n. A strip of copy announcing some late breaking news or item of interest, typically placed in a print advertisement…
• n. A bottle of wine measuring 0.1875 liters, one fourth the volume of a standard bottle; a quarter bottle…
• n. A sharp, clever answer; sarcasm.
• v. (intransitive) To make malicious, underhand remarks or attacks.

struggle

• n. Strife, contention, great effort.
• v. To strive, to labour in difficulty, to fight (for or against), to contend.
• v. To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.