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Assail vs Malignant - What's the difference?

assail | malignant |

As a verb assail

is to attack violently using words or force.

As an adjective malignant is

harmful, malevolent, injurious.

As a noun malignant is

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assail

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To attack violently using words or force.
    • 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").

    malignant

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Harmful, malevolent, injurious.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
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  • (medicine) Tending to produce death; threatening a fatal issue.
    • malignant diphtheria
    a malignant tumor

    Antonyms

    * (medicine) benign

    Related terms

    * nonmalignant

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * 1823 , The Retrospective Review (volume 7, page 11)
    • As devout Stephen was carried to his burial by devout men, so is it just and equal that malignants should carry malignants
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