onslaught

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UK /ˈɒn.slɔːt/ US /ˈɑn.slɔt/

noun 2

Collocations

(noun.)

ADJ

sudden

The team was unprepared for the sudden onslaught of attacks from their opponents.

first, initial | latest | renewed | verbal

VERB + ONSLAUGHT

face

The small shop had to face a relentless onslaught of customers during the holiday sales.

resist, survive, withstand | launch, mount

PREP

~ against/on

The team launched a fierce onslaught on their rivals during the second half of the match.

~ from

We weren't ready for the onslaught from the angry customers after the price increase.

Definitions

noun

A fierce attack.

A large number of people or things resembling an attack.

They opened the doors and prepared for the onslaught of holiday shoppers.

The inevitable Baggies onslaught followed as substitute Simon Cox saw his strike excellently parried by keeper Bunn, with Cox heading the rebound down into the ground and agonisingly over the bar.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — (military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons)

noun — the rapid and continuous delivery of linguistic communicatio

barrage
bombardment
outpouring

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

They opened the doors and prepared for the onslaught of holiday shoppers.

Wiktionary

The inevitable Baggies onslaught followed as substitute Simon Cox saw his strike excellently parried by keeper Bunn, with Cox heading the rebound down into the ground and agonisingly over the bar.

Wiktionary

The defenders checked the onslaught by the attackers.

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Ideas are inherently conservative. They yield not to the attack of other ideas but to the massive onslaught of circumstance with which they cannot contend.

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Spain is reeling under the onslaught of the coronavirus.

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Ziri was fighting a losing battle against an onslaught of snow.

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