assault and battery
Physical attack charge
Assault and battery is a legal term for the combination of threatening violence (assault) and carrying it out (battery).
In everyday speech, the phrase often describes a physical attack regardless of whether a formal threat preceded it: He was charged with assault and battery after the bar fight.
The pairing reflects how threats and blows typically occur together.
- muggingRobbery with violence
- rapeOilseed brassica crop
- domestic violenceAbuse between household members
- woundingCausing physical injury
- homicideCausing another's death
kidnapping · resisting arrest · poisoning · assassination · criminal charges · pressing charges · felony conviction · physical altercation · bar fight · drunk and disorderly · unprovoked attack · violence · violent crime · murder · manslaughter · robbery · bodily harm · grievous bodily harm
- street crimesmugging, pickpocketing, robbery, purse snatching, carjacking
- crimesarson, burglary, robbery, kidnapping, vandalism
- thuggerybullying, intimidation, strong-arming, menacing, threatening
- violenceviolence, physical attack, brutality, physical violence, aggression
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Guarding against harm
self-defense · first aid · rescue · defense · safeguarding
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Principled rejection of force
peace · pacifism · harmony · gentleness · civility
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