Assail
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To attack violently.
Attack
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To apply violent force to someone or something.To aggressively challenge a person, idea, etc., with words (particularly in newspaper headlines, because it typesets into less space than "criticize" or similar).To aim balls at the batsman's wicket.To set a field, or bowl in a manner designed to get wickets.To bat aggressively, so as to score runs quickly.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: An attempt to cause damage or injury to, or to somehow detract from the worth or credibility of, a person, position, idea, object, or thing, by physical, verbal, emotional, or other assault.A time in which one attacks. The offence of a battle.Collectively, the bowlers of a cricket side.Any contact with the ball other than a serve or block which sends the ball across the plane of the net.The three attackmen on the field or all the attackmen of a team.The sudden onset of a disease.The amount of time it takes for the volume of an audio signal to go from zero to maximum level (e.g. an audio waveform representing a snare drum hit would feature a very fast attack, whereas that of a wave washing to shore would feature a slow attack).
Example sentence: I attack ideas. I don't attack people. And some very good people have some very bad ideas. And if you can't separate the two, you gotta get another day job. You don't want to be a judge. At least not a judge on a multi-member panel.