Possible Clues:

• Protested against one given collection by that man from department
• Did rail overrun, as some may say?
• Was railing damaged in hedge I’ve cut?
• Launched attack but he'd give in, beaten
• Attacked violently or bitterly in words
• Reviled in audible attack
• Attacked and beaten, he'd give in
• Made an unprovoked, verbal attack
• Sounds as if you force your way in where you're spoken against like this