Related Clues:

• Begin with gusto
• Attack vigorously
• Criticize sharply
• Sudden strike
• Fur piece
• Verbally assault, perhaps
• Asthma episode
• Animal hide
• Hide from an animal
• Linus Van ___
• Besiege
• Assail vigorously
• War cry
• Hit with hail
• Hit, as with hailstones