The phrase "assault spread" is not a standard expression in written English and may be unclear without context.
It could potentially be used in discussions about the dissemination of information regarding assaults or the spread of violence in a specific area.
Example: "The report highlighted the alarming assault spread in the downtown area over the past month."
Alternatives: "assault increase" or "rise in assaults".
News of the assault spread rapidly via Twitter and social media.
Indian law forbids revealing the names of rape victims and survivors, but the next morning, as the news of the horrific sexual assault spread, fury and loathing began to spread throughout Delhi and elsewhere in India.
The assault spread across a wider front this week, when House Republicans forced the federal government to shut down in the hope of stopping Obamacare (see article), or at least delaying it for a while.Healthy scepticismThe shutdown began on the same day the new health exchanges opened up.
After its initial assault, Charlie Company spread out across the island.
Mr Nkunda knows that merely threatening such an assault will spread dismay and play on popular dissatisfaction with a government that has done little to please voters.
An enormous assault course spread across a suburb of Buenos Aires and crafted out of giant balls and old-fashioned humour, Total Wipeout makes The Jump look like The Hunger Games.
Rwandan- and Ugandan-backed forces came close to repeating the upheaval a year later, provoking the awful civil war that sucked in forces from several nearby countries including Angola, Namibia and Zimbabwe.General Nkunda knows that merely threatening such an assault will spread dismay and play on popular dissatisfaction with Mr Kabila's government.
Suicide bombers who drove carloads of explosives into five buildings around the capital on Monday killed at least 34 people and wounded more than 200 in a coordinated assault that spread mayhem across the city and appeared to open a new phase in the guerrilla war against the American occupation.
One of the boys took a photo of the assault, which spread through the school via the internet.
This appears to be another form of the "Sexiest Video Ever" malware assault which spread on Facebook last weekend, according to security firm Sophos.
Infected women turn into beasts that assault, maim, spread contagion, destroy themselves, even kill.
