Onslaught synonyms and antonyms

ŏn'slôt', ôn'-

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attack (related)
The experience or beginning of a feeling, need, or desire:
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aggression
An unprovoked attack or warlike act; specif., the use of armed force by a state in violation of its international obligations
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barrage
A concentrated discharge or bombardment of artillery, missiles, or firearms.
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blitz
The definition of a blitz is a sudden and coordinated effort, or a sudden and invasive military attack.
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offensive
(Countable, military) An attack.
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onset
A rushing or setting upon; an attack; an assault; a storming; especially, the assault of an army.
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storm
A violent, sudden attack on a fortified place.
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defense (antonym)
Government policy or structure related to the military.
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assailment
(Rare) An assault; an attack.
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assault
A violent physical attack, as with blows.
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attempt
An effort or a try.
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offense
The team in possession of the ball or puck, or those players whose primary duty is to attempt to score.
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strike
A perfectly thrown ball:
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bombardment
The act of bombing, especially towns or cities
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outpouring
A release or display of strong feeling
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invasion (related)
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incursion (related)
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backlash (related)
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outburst (related)
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Onslaught Sentence Examples

  • Her voice was sharp enough to parry his verbal onslaught.

  • Philip Augustus made a vigorous onslaught on.

  • Xenophanes in the middle of the 6th century had made the first great attack on the crude mythology of early Greece, including in his onslaught the whole anthropomorphic system enshrined in the poems of Homer and Hesiod.

  • Grassmann made in 1854 a somewhat savage onslaught on Cauchy and De St Venant, the former of whom had invented, while the latter had exemplified in application, the system of " clefs algebriques," which is almost precisely 1 Die Ausdehnungslehre, Leipsic, 1844; 2nd ed., vollstandig and in strenger Form bearbeitet, Berlin, 1862.1862.

  • Percy received the fugitives within a hollow square, checked the onslaught for a time with two field-pieces, used the Munroe Tavern for a hospital, and later in the day carried his command with little further injury back to Boston.

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