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Watching a drama I came across the sentence

> 犯人は背後から女性に近づき、 **殴りかかった** 。

I would have translated it like:

> The perpetrator came up from behind and hit the woman.

Unfortunately I am not to confident in my interpretation since I don't really
understand the usage of かかる and what kind of nuance it adds to the sentence...

Thanks for your help in advance :)
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grammar compound-verbs
When to use ます-stem + かかる
> 「Verb in [連用形]{れんようけい} (continuative form) + かかる」
>
> = "to be about to (verb)", "to almost (verb)", "to initiate the action of
> (verb)ing", etc.

In other words, if one only has the sentence:

> 「[犯人]{はんにん}は[背後]{はいご}から[女性]{じょせい}に[近]{ちか}づき、[殴]{なぐ}りかかった。」

without any context, _**one does not know if the striking actually took
place**_. Maybe it happened. Maybe someone/something stopped the perpetrator
from hitting her. All one knows for sure is that:

> "He raised his hand against her."

Chances are that he probably did strike her because it only takes a second to
do so, but that assumption does not come automatically with 「殴り **かかった** 」,
which is **not** the same thing as 「殴った」.
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