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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: (military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons); "the attack began at dawn" [syn: attack, onslaught, onset, onrush]
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 onrush of her thoughts"

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1841 1. a rushing forward or onward 2. onset • onrushing adjective

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. an onward rush.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Onrush On"rush`, n. A rushing onward.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

The onrush of something is its sudden development, which happens so quickly and forcefully that you are unable to control it. The onrush of tears took me by surprise... She was screwing up her eyes against the onrush of air. = surge N-SING: usu N of n

Moby Thesaurus

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