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  • 61assault — Synonyms and related words: abuse, aggravated assault, aggression, ambush, amphibious attack, armed assault, assail, assailing, assailment, attack, banzai attack, barbarize, batter, battering, battery, bear, bear upon, beat up, beating, berating …

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  • 62blitz — Synonyms and related words: aggravated assault, aggression, aim at, air raid, ambush, amphibious attack, area bombing, armed assault, assail, assailing, assailment, assault, attack, banzai attack, barrage, blast, blitzkrieg, blow to pieces, blow… …

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  • 63come — Synonyms and related words: accomplish, accost, achieve, achieve satisfaction, acquire, add up, add up to, advance, affect, aggregate, amount to, anticipate, appear, approach, appropinquate, approximate, arise, arrive, arrive at, arrive in,… …

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  • 64lay hands on — Synonyms and related words: abduct, administer the Eucharist, ambush, annex, anoint, assail, assault, attack, bless, blitz, bushwhack, carry off, chrism, come at, come down on, confirm, crack down on, cross, descend on, descend upon, do duty,… …

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  • 65light into — Synonyms and related words: ambush, assail, assault, attack, blitz, bushwhack, come at, come down on, crack down on, descend on, descend upon, dive into, draw first blood, enter on, enter upon, fall on, fall to, fall upon, gang up on, get busy,… …

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  • 66sail into — Synonyms and related words: ambush, assail, assault, attack, blitz, bushwhack, collide, come at, come down on, crack down on, descend on, descend upon, dive into, draw first blood, enter on, enter upon, fall aboard, fall on, fall to, fall upon,… …

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  • 67wade into — Synonyms and related words: ambush, assail, assault, attack, blitz, bushwhack, come at, come down on, crack down on, descend on, descend upon, dive into, enter on, enter upon, fall on, fall to, fall upon, gang up on, get busy, get cracking, get… …

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  • 68devolve — de·volve /di vȯlv, välv/ vi de·volved, de·volv·ing [Medieval Latin devolvi, passive of devolvere to roll down, from Latin, from de down, away + volvere to roll] 1: to pass by transfer or succession the estate devolved to a distant cousin 2: to… …

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  • 69crack down on — Synonyms and related words: ambush, asphyxiate, assail, assault, attack, blitz, bottle up, bushwhack, censor, choke off, clamp down on, come at, come down on, cork, cork up, crush, damp down, descend on, descend upon, drown, extinguish, fall on,… …

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  • 70gang up on — Synonyms and related words: ambush, assail, assault, attack, blitz, bushwhack, come at, come down on, crack down on, descend on, descend upon, fall on, fall upon, go at, go for, harry, have at, hit, hit like lightning, jump, land on, lay at, lay… …

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