| 单词 | to win, gain, take, or carry by assault |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto win, gain, take, or carry by assault 2. The sudden rush or charge of an attacking force against the walls of a city or fortress; a storm; esp. in the phrases to make or give assault, to win, gain, take, or carry by assault. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > attack > [noun] > storming assault1297 fraista1400 expugnationc1540 storm1645 storming1661 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. 409 Hii sette Roberd Courtehose..in þe Est syde, þe asaut vor to do. 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xvii. 474 The assalt haf thai levit all. c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) 519 They went to the castell of Iaffet and toke it with assaulte. 1520 Chron. Eng. v. f. 45v/2 The kynges men gave a greate assaute unto the castell. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 619/1 I make a saulte to a towne. 1685 London Gaz. 24 Aug. 1/2 The Enemy gave several Assaults to the Outworks. 1872 J. Yeats Growth Commerce 180 He took Goa by assault. < as lemmas |
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