Assault is a crime and a tort involving physically harming, or threatening to harm, another person.
Assault may also refer to:
Law
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Assault (tort)
In common law, assault is the tort of acting intentionally, that is with either general or specific intent, causing the reasonable apprehension of an immediate harmful or offensive contact. Assault requires intent, it is considered an intentional ...
, in common law, an intentional act causing the reasonable apprehension of harmful contact
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Common assault
Common may refer to:
Places
* Common, a townland in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
* Boston Common, a central public park in Boston, Massachusetts
* Cambridge Common, common land area in Cambridge, Massachusetts
* Clapham Common, originally com ...
, an offence in English law similar to the above
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Psychic assault, a term sometimes used as a synonym for assault to distinguish from the crime of battery
Arts and entertainment
Films
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''Assault'' (film), a 1971 British crime thriller
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''The Assault'' (1936 film), a French political thriller
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''The Assault'' (1986 film), a Dutch film set in WWII, based on the 1982 Mulisch novel
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''The Assault'' (1996 film), an American action movie
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''The Assault'' (2010 film), a French action thriller
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''The Assault'' (2017 film), an American crime action movie
Video games
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''Assault'' (1983 video game), a fixed shooter game for the Atari 2600
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''Assault ''(1988 video game), a multi-directional shooter arcade game
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Assault: Retribution'', a 1998 video game for the PlayStation console
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Star Fox: Assault'', a 2005 video game for the Gamecube console
Other media
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The Assault'', a 1982 Dutch novel by Harry Mulisch
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Assault Championship Wrestling, Connecticut, U.S.
*"Assault", a 1994
song by Daft Punk
Other uses
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Assault (horse) (1943–1971), a Texas-bred American racehorse
*Assault, a
military tactic
Military tactics encompasses the art of organizing and employing fighting forces on or near the battlefield. They involve the application of four battlefield functions which are closely related – kinetic or firepower, Mobility (military), mobil ...
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