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Assail vs Rebuke - What's the difference?

assail | rebuke |

As verbs the difference between assail and rebuke

is that assail is to attack violently using words or force while rebuke is to criticise harshly; to reprove.

As a noun rebuke is

a harsh criticism.

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").

    rebuke

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A harsh criticism.
  • * 2012 , July 15. Richard Williams in Guardian Unlimited, Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track
  • There was the sternness of an old-fashioned Tour patron in his rebuke to the young Frenchman Pierre Rolland, the only one to ride away from the peloton and seize the opportunity for a lone attack before being absorbed back into the bunch, where he was received with coolness.

    Verb

    (rebuk)
  • To criticise harshly; to reprove.
  • Synonyms

    * See also