Thesaurus results for ASSAILANT

assailant

noun

ə-ˈsā-lənt

Definition of assailant next

as in attacker

one who violently sets upon another the darkness prevented me from getting a good look at my assailant

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Recent Examples of assailant In addition, the Broward lab was not equipped to perform the complicated analysis of the data that might exclude Duckett as the assailant. —

Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 8 May 2026 The state-wide ban on magazines came in 2013, just a year after the Aurora Theater shooting, where, in a matter of seconds, an assailant with a 100-round magazine was able to kill 12 people and injure 70 more. —

The Denver Post Editorial Board, Denver Post, 8 May 2026 The assailants repeatedly rammed their vehicle into a police cruiser, Beere said. —

Rick Hurd, Mercury News, 8 May 2026 For dozens of Haitian Americans who attended the two-month trial in downtown Miami, the outcome was joyful — even though the voluminous evidence did not reveal the names of the mastermind behind the deadly plot or the assailant who fatally shot Moïse. —

Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 8 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for assailant

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Noun

Castillo instead met with the attackers on a plan to keep word from getting out.

— Tim Fang, CBS News, 19 May 2026
Abdullah exchanged gunfire with the attackers and alerted everyone inside to go into lockdown, officials said.

— Tom Winter, NBC news, 19 May 2026