Assail vs Rebuke - What's the difference?
assail | rebuke |
To attack violently using words or force.
A harsh criticism.
* 2012 , July 15. Richard Williams in Guardian Unlimited,
To criticise harshly; to reprove.
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)- 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)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.