onrush – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
onrush
n.
sudden rush of movement; flow; inrush
onrush
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
Onrush
(n.)
A rushing onward.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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onrush
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
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
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