Euph. send west, take for a ride, put [s.o.] out of his misery.
2. shoot, shoot down, riddle, Inf. blow [s.o.'s] brains out, SI. pump [s.o.] full of lead; club, beat, batter, pound, hammer, brain, blackjack, SI. knock or beat [s.o.'s] brains out; choke, strangle, throttle, stifle, gar-rote, SI. scrag; knife, stab, cut [s.o.'s] throat, jugulate, cut, cut down, bayonet, pierce, run through, put to the sword, impale, spear, lance, Euph. let the daylight in; smother, suffocate, asphyxiate, burke; execute, put to death.
3. slaughter, butcher, cut to pieces, hew, hack, hack to pieces, chop, chop to pieces, dismember, draw and quarter, tear limb from limb, disembowel, mutilate, savage, maul, wade in blood, shed or spill blood.
4. (all of character or reputation) injure, abuse, assail, stab, blight, destroy, butcher, slaughter; defame, denigrate, vilify, vilipend, scandalize, run down, speak ill of, speak evil of, revile, malign, gibbet. See defame {def. 2). assassination, n. 1. murder, homicide, manslaughter, killing, slaying, thuggee, murder most foul, bloody or foul murder, foul play, fatality, death, violent
death, SI. hit, dispatch, silencing, elimination, liquida tion, blotting or wiping out; shooting, strangulation, strangling, choking, throttling, garrote, garroting, asphyxiation, suffocating, suffocation, smothering, burking, stabbing, knifing, impalement, poisoning.
2. (all of character or reputation) injury, abuse, destruction, butchery, slaughter; defamation, denigration, vilification, vituperation, scandal. See defama* tion (def 2). assault, n. 1. attack, offensive, onslaught, onset, rush, blitz, blitzkrieg, storming, Fr. coup de main, Obs. brunt; raid, foray, sortie, sally; invasion, aggression, incursion, escalade; siege, besiegement, beset-ment, investment; bombardment, strafing, air raid, peppering, salvo, fusillade, Both Mil. barrage, enfilade, Navy, broadside.
2. mugging, holdup; battering, beating, pounding, pummeling, pommeling, going over, SI. pasting; hitting, striking, bastinado, Scot. dunt, Scot. and North Eng. paik.
3. molestation, violation, outrage; ravishment, rape, deflowering, Obs. devirgination, Obs. constupration, Obs. stupration.
-v. 4. attack, raid, storm, charge, rush, blitz, blitzkrieg; set upon, pounce upon, descend upon, fall on, open fire upon, begin hostilities, light into, Inf. lace into, Inf. rip into, Inf. tear into, SI. zap, SI. let [s.o.] have it, SI. lay into, Archaic, insult; pelt, bombard, barrage, pepper, strafe, fusillade, broadside, Mil. enfilade, Inf gang up on.
5. mug, put the arm on [s.o.], SI. jump; strike, hit, smite, knock, take a poke at, punch, pommel, pummel, batter, beat up, Inf. throw a punch, Inf clout, Inf. slug, Inf. whack, Inf. wallop, Inf. crown, SI. conk, SI. belt, SI. bash, SI. plug, SI. sock, SI. bop, U.S. SI. biff, Scot. dunt, Scot. and North Eng. paik.
6. assail, beset, besiege, siege, beleaguer; plague, molest, harass, harry, harrow, worry, trouble, Scot. fash, Scot. sturt. assay, v. 1. test, try out, experiment with; put to the test, prove, put to trial.
2. examine, analyze, inspect, scrutinize, look over carefully; investigate, check out, inquire into, search, probe, explore; study, consider carefully, give thought to, weigh; evaluate, assess, appraise, judge, pass judgement on.
3. attempt, try, undertake, endeavor, essay, make an effort, strive, exert oneself.
assemblage, n. 1. collection, accumulation, amassment; number, aggregation, aggregate; concentration, mass; cluster, clump, batch; store, stock, pile, heap; medley, jumble; agglomeration, conglomeration, congeries, lump.