onrush

n. sudden rush of movement; flow; inrush

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Noun
1. (military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons); "the attack began at dawn"
(synonym) attack, onslaught, onset
(hypernym) operation, military operation
(hyponym) ground attack
(part-meronym) assault
(classification) military, armed forces, armed services, military machine, war machine
2. a forceful forward rush or flow; "from the bow she stared at the mesmerising onrush of the sea where it split and foamed"; "the explosion interrupted the wild onsrush of her thoughts"
(hypernym) rush, spate, surge, upsurge

(n.)
A rushing onward.
  

Synonyms and related words:
Brownian movement, advance, affluence, afflux, affluxion, angular motion, ascending, ascent, axial motion, backflowing, backing, backward motion, career, climbing, concourse, confluence, conflux, course, crosscurrent, current, defluxion, descending, descent, downflow, downpour, downward motion, drift, driftage, ebbing, flight, flow, flowing, fluency, flux, forward motion, gush, inflow, mill run, millrace, mounting, oblique motion, ongoing, onward course, outflow, passage, plunging, progress, race, radial motion, random motion, reflowing, refluence, reflux, regression, retrogression, rising, run, rush, set, sideward motion, sinking, soaring, spate, sternway, stream, subsiding, surge, tide, traject, trajet, trend, undercurrent, undertow, upward motion, water flow
  

onrush /'ɔnrʌʃ/

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