Illustration: Outside a neighborhood bicycle parking area, an angry adult grabs another adult by the jacket and punches their upper arm. The person being attacked twists away with one forearm shielding their face, their shopping bag dropped beside them. A leek and a round onion have rolled across the pavement.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

暴ぼう行こう

boukou

to assault

Example sentences

  1. 警官けいかんによる暴行ぼうこう事件じけんはあやうく暴動ぼうどうに火ひをつけるところでした。

    The police brutality incidents nearly set off a riot.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 途中とちゅう、すれ違ちがった力士りきしが道みちを譲ゆずらなかったため、芹沢せりざわらは力士りきしたちに暴行ぼうこうを加くわえた。

    On their way to Osaka, when sumo wrestlers they encountered on the road did not give way, SERIZAWA and others assaulted them.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. また、略奪りゃくだつ、暴行ぼうこう、放火ほうか、強姦ごうかんや殺戮さつりくのような戦争犯罪せんそうはんざいが行おこなわれた記録きろくも多おおい。

    Moreover, there were many recorded incidents of war crimes such as pillage, violent assaults, arson, rapes and massacres.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 暴行

  • 暴outburst; raveOnボウ・バクKunあばく・あばれる
  • 行go; carry outOnコウ・ギョウ・アンKunいく・ゆく・おこなう

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