assault

/əˈsɔːlt/ noun [C, U]

Translation

› an attack

saldırı, hücum

an assault on a police officer sexual assault 39

assault verb [T] ›

saldırmak

(Definition of assault noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

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