assaulted
- 1Simple past and past participle of assault.
The defendant assaulted his neighbor over a long-running parking dispute.
She was assaulted on her way home and reported the incident to the police.
Note
One spelling does two jobs, as with any regular -ed verb: it is the past tense of an active clause and also the participle after have or be (had assaulted, was assaulted). Because assault takes a direct object, the passive comes naturally. Someone assaulted need not have been struck: the verb also covers threatening or harassing, and in law an assault can be a raised fist or a blow that misses.
assaulted is a form of assault
assault, verb: To set upon and attack someone or something, whether with physical force or, figuratively, with a barrage of words. Full entry
- Forms
- assaultassaults he/she/itassaulting -ing formassaulted past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- assault → assaulted: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪd/, an extra syllable.
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