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Onrush

noun
1.
(military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons).  Synonyms: attack, onset, onslaught.
2.
A forceful forward rush or flow.  "The explosion interrupted the wild onrush of her thoughts"






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"Onrush" Quotes from Famous Books



... God, then you will be able to 'withstand in the evil day, and having done all to stand.' And how does a man plant his foot on the grace of God? simply by trusting in God, and not in himself. So that the secret of all steadfastness of life, and of all successful resistance to the whirling onrush of temptations and of difficulties, is to set your foot upon that rock, and then ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) • Alexander Maclaren

... James said to the English knights, who, with their followers, had gathered round him. "I had great hopes that, with the dyke in their front to check the onrush of the French, they might withstand all attacks and come out victors; now they are throwing away their advantage, and going like sheep to the shearers. By my faith, friends, 'tis well that our horses have rested of late, for we shall need all their speed if we are to make our escape ...
— A March on London • G. A. Henty

... On the last Sunday in November I awoke, feeling like iced chicken, to learn that the blizzard had begun. It was still dark, and the snow was being driven along by the wind, so that it flew nearly parallel with the ground, and clothed with mantles of white all the scrub that opposed its onrush. This morning only did the wild Peninsula look beautiful. But its whiteness was that of a whited sepulchre. Never before had it been so mercilessly cruel. For now was opening the notorious blizzard that should strike down hundreds with frost-bite, and drown ...
— Tell England - A Study in a Generation • Ernest Raymond

... they became separated from their children in that first terrific onrush of the multitude when the fire swept along Mission Street these two had been tramping over the hills and parks without food or rest, searching for their little ones. To all whom they have met they have addressed the same pitiful question: 'Have ...
— The San Francisco Calamity • Various



Words linked to "Onrush" :   upsurge, military operation, fire, blitz, charge, blitzkrieg, surprise attack, military machine, banzai charge, strike, armed forces, strafe, war machine, operation, surge, spate, diversion, rush, assault, ground attack, bombing, armed services, coup de main, diversionary attack, banzai attack, counterattack, bombardment, penetration, countermove, incursion, firing, military



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