Meaning of ONRUSH
Pronunciation: | | 'ân`rush
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WordNet Dictionary |
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- [n] an offensive against and enemy (using weapons); "the attack began at dawn"
- [n] a forceful forward rush; "it was forgotten in the onrush of events"
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| Synonyms: | | attack, onset, onslaught |
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| See Also: | | assault, banzai attack, banzai charge, blitz, bombardment, bombing, charge, counterattack, countermove, coup de main, diversion, diversionary attack, fire, firing, ground attack, incursion, military operation, operation, penetration, rush, spate, strike, surge, surprise attack, upsurge | |
Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| Definition: | | \On"rush`\, n.
A rushing onward.
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| Related Terms: | | advance, affluence, afflux, affluxion, angular motion, ascending, ascent, axial motion, backflowing, backing, backward motion, Brownian movement, 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 |
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