defend

lambaste, criticize, decry, denounce, excoriate, lambast, chastise, castigate, deride, chide, laud, inveigh, extol, eviscerate, tout, demonize, scold, berate, disparaged, impugn, condemn, railed, pummel, pander, revile, denigrate, vaunt, accuse, skewer, carped, chastize, flay, mocked, disavow, rebuking, fulminate, ridiculed, vilify, constitutionalize, expound, oppose, pilloried, crucify, belittled, lash, proclaim, confront, fearmonger, mau mau, repudiate, trample, bludgeon, declaim, cite, demean, discredit, defends, blasted, speechify, poke fun, demonized, upbraid, deplored, kowtow, bemoan, espouse, harangue, foist, bloviate, bombard, sermonize, defy, trumpeting, complain, badmouth, portray, riles, despise, scorning, undercut, argue, equivocate, parroted, naysay, lampooned, outshout, grumble, bristle, defang, cheerlead, euphemized, besmirch, exalt, detested, maligns, marginalize, lionize, refute, prevaricate, whined, assert, jousted, put, arguing, contending, pints, temptations, wrestle, agony, barrage, controversialist, doth, echos, entreaties, gar, oaths, ounces, protests, quart, quarts, repent, slew

abuse, bait, beleaguer, beset, besiege, blackguard, blister, blitz, bomb, bulldog, bust, cannonade, circumvent, clapperclaw, claw, counterattack, counterstrike, desecrate, dishonor, dishonour, gas, hem in, hit, hold up, invade, jump, molest, occupy, outrage, profane, raid, rape, ravish, reassail, rubbish, rush, set, set upon, shout, sic, stick up, storm, strike, surprise, surround, torpedo, violate, whang, whip

beset, reassail, set upon, unassailable, untouchable, visit

criticise, pick apart

assault, attack, lash out, round, set on, snipe