Assault
How words are described
| direct | direct assault | direct blast |
| original | original assault | original blast |
| initial | initial assault | initial blast |
| painful | painful assault | painful blast |
| Other adjectives: actual, massive, big, enormous, huge, psychic, main, combined, mental, random, last, sudden, ensuing, magical, nuclear. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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During the final battle with Sinister in issue 17, upon watching Sabretooth's frontal assault on Sinister being effortlessly defeated by a force field or energy blast, Laura's own attack is much more successful; she ambushes him instead and pins his foot to the catwalk he's standing on from below.
Source: Taught by Experience -
The first time was when Mebius and Taro were battling against Imperializer, when Mebius takes a powerful blast from the robot while protecting GUYS from its assault.
Source: Only Mostly Dead -
The Scary Black Man type of mook, who needs a shotgun blast or an entire magazine of assault rifle fire to kill him.
Source: Video Game / Hotline Miami
Cite this Source
Blast and Assault. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/assault/blast
Assault & Blast. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/assault/blast>.
Blast or Assault. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/assault/blast.
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