To subject to a heavy attack, physical or figurative.
2011 January 5,Jonathan Stevenson,“Arsenal 0 - 0 Man City”, inBBC:
They tore into a stunned City and there was only a minute on the clock when Samir Nasri slipped Jack Wilshere into the area, the 19-year-old's left-foot pass to the far post agonisingly evading a lunging Van Persie.