victim of assault (of attack)

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• assault — as·sault 1 /ə sȯlt/ n [Old French assaut, literally, attack, ultimately from Latin assultus, from assilire to leap (on), attack] 1: the crime or tort of threatening or attempting to inflict immediate offensive physical contact or bodily harm… …   Law dictionary

• attack — vb Attack, assail, assault, bombard, storm are comparable not only in their military but also in their extended senses. All carry as their basic meaning to make a more or less violent onset upon. Attack originally connoted a fastening upon… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• ASSAULT — ASSAULT, the infliction of any degree of violence on the body of another person, whether injury results or not. The biblical injunction, he may be given up to 40 lashes but not more (Deut. 25:3), which applies to flogging by way of punishment,… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• Assault — This article is about the criminal act. For tortious aspects of assault, see Assault (tort). For other uses, see Assault (disambiguation) …   Wikipedia

• assault — 1. verb 1) he assaulted a police officer Syn: attack, hit, strike, punch, beat up, thump; pummel, pound, batter; informal clout, wallop, belt, clobber, hammer, bop, sock, deck, slug …   Thesaurus of popular words

• assault — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 crime of attacking sb ADJECTIVE ▪ brutal, ferocious, savage, vicious, violent ▪ armed ▪ criminal …   Collocations dictionary

• victim — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ hapless, helpless, innocent, poor, unfortunate, unwilling ▪ He defrauded his innocent victims of millions. ▪ unsuspecting …   Collocations dictionary

• victim — 01. The Red Cross is collecting money to help the [victims] of the earthquake in China. 02. The [victim] sat down and cried after the man hit her. 03. The [victim] was found lying in a pool of blood. 04. Many women who have been sexually… …   Grammatical examples in English

• 2006 Harris County, Texas hate crime assault — The 2006 Harris County, Texas hate crime assault refers to the beating, torture, and sexual assault of a Latino student, by two white youths during the early morning of April 22, 2006, in an unincorporated section of Harris County, Texas, United… …   Wikipedia

• Michael Brown Okinawa assault incident — Michael Brown Okinawa attempted assault incident Date: November 2, 2002 Place: Okinawa, Japan Charge: Attempted rape, destruction of private property Result: Convicted of: attempted indecent assault, destruction of private property The Michael… …   Wikipedia

• Common assault — was an offence under the common law of England, and has been held now to be a statutory offence in England and Wales. It is committed by a person who causes another person to apprehend the immediate use of unlawful violence by the defendant. It… …   Wikipedia