Assail vs Denigrate - What's the difference?
assail | denigrate |
To attack violently using words or force.
To criticise so as to besmirch; traduce, disparage or defame.
To treat as worthless; belittle, degrade or disparage.
(rare) To blacken.
As verbs the difference between assail and denigrate
is that assail is to attack violently using words or force while denigrate is to criticise so as to besmirch; traduce, disparage or defame.assail
English
Verb
(en verb)- Muggers assailed them as they entered an alley.
- For the next six months or so those children will assail her in public with demands for an improper story! (from H.H. Munro's short story, "The Storyteller").
