verbal assault

Very hostile speech directed at someone. Don't talk to Stan today—I just tried to ask him a simple question, and I got a verbal assault. A: "Why are you crying?" B: "The professor gave me a verbal assault in the middle of my presentation."

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Chun	-	Chinese
Klara	KLAH-rah (German, Russian, Polish)	Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, German, Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Slovene, Croatian
Orpha	AWR-fə (English)	Biblical, English
Rodica	ro-DEE-kah	Romanian
Ademar	-	Portuguese
Abbey	['æbi]