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Assault and battery

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  1. 1
    The combination of two violent crimes: assault (the threat of violence) and battery (physical violence). This legal distinction exists only in jurisdictions that distinguish assault as threatened violence rather than actual violence. idiomatic
  2. 2
    an assault in which the assailant makes physical contact wordnet

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