Synonyms for assault and battery
as·sault and bat·te·ry

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1. battery, assault and batterynoun

   an assault in which the assailant makes physical contact

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   barrage fire, barrage, battery, stamp battery, electric battery, bombardment, shelling

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1. Jake Wark:

   We expect to select a new court date in the coming days and then set the amended trial track. The Suffolk indictments allege two counts of first-degree murder for the July 16, 2012, shooting deaths of Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado in Boston's South End; three counts of armed assault with intent to murder and one count of assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon for shots fired at three surviving victims; and one count of unlawful possession of a firearm.

2. Richland County:

   [Pentland] touched somebody, that’s an assault. That’s assault and battery when you place your hands on someone, and he did. The video showed that he did, and that’s the evidence that we have that he was charged with.

3. Neil Gorsuch:

   The Supreme Court recognized in Cruzan that there's a right in the common law to be free from assault and battery, effectively.