assaultive
Collocations
5ADJ.
patient, patient, potential, violent
VERB + ASSAULTIVE
led
ASSAULTIVE + NOUN
behavior, incident
PREP.
on
ADV.
definitely
Definitions
adj
Confrontational; tending or seeming to assault; characterized by assault.
an assaultive patient; an assaultive incident
1852, “A Dish of Willis,” review of Nathaniel Parker Willis, Pencillings by the Way, in Church’s Bizarre: For Fireside and Wayside, New Series, Part 12, 18 September, 1852, p. 367, […] we must say, that depreciatory judgments and assaultive criticism, are not only not to our taste, but especially ungrateful to our feelings.
noun
A person who assaults others.
This man is not only very very sick, but I believe he is definitely a Potential Assaultive.
Extreme assaultives were operationally defined as those who were convicted of murder, manslaughter, or attempted murder. Moderate assaultives included persons convicted of wounding with intent to cause serious bodily harm, malicious or unlawful wounding, and assault.
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5an assaultive patient; an assaultive incident
Wiktionary1852, “A Dish of Willis,” review of Nathaniel Parker Willis, Pencillings by the Way, in Church’s Bizarre: For Fireside and Wayside, New Series, Part 12, 18 September, 1852, p. 367, […] we must say, th
WiktionaryFor the most part, his rages in the past have been directed at authority figures—father, brother, Army sergeant, state parole officer—and have led to violent assaultive behavior on several occasions.
WiktionaryThis man is not only very very sick, but I believe he is definitely a Potential Assaultive.
WiktionaryExtreme assaultives were operationally defined as those who were convicted of murder, manslaughter, or attempted murder. Moderate assaultives included persons convicted of wounding with intent to caus
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