2. battery, attack, beating, mugging, physical violence, GBH (Brit.), ABH (Brit.) At the police station, I was charged with assault. 3. abuse, attack, blame, criticism, censure, vilification, denigration, calumny, character assassination, stick (slang), sideswipe, impugnment He levelled a...
etc. This type of event will happen several times a week, lasting all day. I'm not sure where my place is on this, since I don't know them, and I don’t even know what neighbor it is, but I hate just sitting here doing nothing while a man is beating a woman. I don’t know...
Assault and battery, related but distinct crimes, battery being the unlawful application of physical force to another and assault being an attempt to commit battery or an act that causes another reasonably to fear an imminent battery. These concepts are