Word.ws English Dictionary

verbal assaults

verbal assaults is the plural of verbal assault.

Meaning of verbal assault

Noun

verbal assault (plural verbal assaults)

  1. Often used other than figuratively or idiomatically: an assault that is verbal.
  2. (US) Oral or written speech that creates, or is intended to create, a fear of physical harm.
    • If a pupil enrolled in grade six or above committed a verbal assault at school against school personnel, described above, and the assault were reported to the school board by the victim, the school board or its designee would be required, after affording the required due process, to suspend the...1998, Michigan Senate Fiscal Agency, S.B. 313 (S-1), First Analysis: Student Expulsion for Assault, page 2

Questions about verbal assaults

What is verbal assaults the plural of?
Verbal assaults is the plural of verbal assault.

Words near verbal assaults in the dictionary

  1. Verba
  2. verbage
  3. verbal
  4. verbal adjective
  5. verbal assault
  6. verbal assaults
  7. verbal authority
  8. verbal communication
  9. verbal constipation
  10. verbal diarrhea
  11. verbal diarrhoea

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: verbal assaults (page history and authors); verbal assault (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “verbal assaults.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/verbal_assaults. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.