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What is the adjective for assailants?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs assail and assaile which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

assailable
  1. Not defended or not able to be defended.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. exposed, vulnerable, defenceless, defenseless, weak, undefendable, conquerable, in danger, unprotected, unguarded, pregnable, susceptible, wide open, undefended, helpless, open, unshielded, unarmed, open to attack, accessible, unfortified, unresistant, unsafe, naked, attackable, endangered, powerless, insecure, liable, sitting duck, on the line, without arms, at risk, sensitive, vincible, prone, ill-protected, out on a limb, in peril, without weapons, in jeopardy, wide-open, sucker, ready, tender, unpatrolled, indefensible, thin-skinned, on the spot, defenceless against … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “But the character of a minister is the most assailable of that of any of the professions.”
      “The learned trial judge, as was his province, made those findings, and it is my submission that those findings are not assailable.”
      “And taste is now a far weaker, more assailable notion than it was in the late eighteenth century.”
assailant
  1. Assailing; attacking.
assailed
  1. simple past tense and past participle of assail
  2. Synonyms:
      3. attacked, assaulted, beset, charged, rushed, stormed, belabored, belaboured, accosted, besieged, turned on, invaded, raided, struck, stricken, trashed, bushwhacked, impugned, jumped, maltreated, sicced, blitzed, busted, encountered, mugged, pounced on, set upon, beat up, beaten up, set about, set on, tore into, torn into, came at, come at, descended on, descended upon, fell on, fallen on, flew at, flown at, got stuck into, jumped on, laid into, lit into, pitched into, fell upon, fallen upon, went in on, gone in on … more
assailing
  1. present participle of assail
  2. Synonyms:
      3. attacking, assaulting, besetting, charging, rushing, storming, belaboring, belabouring, accosting, besieging, turning on, invading, raiding, striking, trashing, bushwhacking, impugning, jumping, maltreating, siccing, blitzing, busting, encountering, mugging, pouncing on, setting upon, beating up, setting about, setting on, tearing into, coming at, descending on, descending upon, falling on, flying at, getting stuck into, jumping on, laying into, lighting to, pitching into, falling upon, going in on, having at, hitting out at, lacing to, lashing out at, launching an attack on, letting fly at, making an assault on, pouncing upon … more
assailed
  1. simple past tense and past participle of assail
  2. Synonyms:
      3. attacked, assaulted, beset, charged, rushed, stormed, belabored, belaboured, accosted, besieged, turned on, invaded, raided, struck, stricken, trashed, bushwhacked, impugned, jumped, maltreated, sicced, blitzed, busted, encountered, mugged, pounced on, set upon, beat up, beaten up, set about, set on, tore into, torn into, came at, come at, descended on, descended upon, fell on, fallen on, flew at, flown at, got stuck into, jumped on, laid into, lit into, pitched into, fell upon, fallen upon, went in on, gone in on … more
assailing
  1. present participle of assail
  2. Synonyms:
      3. attacking, assaulting, besetting, charging, rushing, storming, belaboring, belabouring, accosting, besieging, turning on, invading, raiding, striking, trashing, bushwhacking, impugning, jumping, maltreating, siccing, blitzing, busting, encountering, mugging, pouncing on, setting upon, beating up, setting about, setting on, tearing into, coming at, descending on, descending upon, falling on, flying at, getting stuck into, jumping on, laying into, lighting to, pitching into, falling upon, going in on, having at, hitting out at, lacing to, lashing out at, launching an attack on, letting fly at, making an assault on, pouncing upon … more
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