📖 Определения и значения для слова assail
📒 to attack somebody/something violently, either physically or with words
- His attacker assailed him with fierce blows to the head.
- The proposal was assailed by the opposition party.
- (figurative) A vile smell assailed my nostrils.
📒 to worry or upset somebody severely
- be assailed by something to be assailed by worries/doubts/fears