assault and battery

1. 1.

   an assault in which the assailant makes physical contact

   Synonymsbattery

   Broaderassault

   Narrowerresisting arrest

Questions about assault and battery

What does assault and battery mean?

assault and battery means "an assault in which the assailant makes physical contact".

What is another word for assault and battery?

Close synonyms include battery. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is assault and battery a common word?

assault and battery is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.