ONRUSH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does onrush mean? 

• ONRUSH (noun)
  The noun ONRUSH has 2 senses:

1. (military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons)

2. a forceful forward rush or flow

  Familiarity information: ONRUSH used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ONRUSH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

attack; onrush; onset; onslaught

Context example:

the attack began at dawn

Hypernyms ("onrush" is a kind of...):

military operation; operation (activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign))

Meronyms (parts of "onrush"):

assault (close fighting during the culmination of a military attack)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "onrush"):

ground attack (an attack by ground troops)

charge (an impetuous rush toward someone or something)

banzai attack; banzai charge (a mass attack of troops without concern for casualties; originated by Japanese who accompanied it with yells of 'banzai')

diversion; diversionary attack (an attack calculated to draw enemy defense away from the point of the principal attack)

incursion; penetration (an attack that penetrates into enemy territory)

blitz; blitzkrieg (a swift and violent military offensive with intensive aerial bombardment)

strike (an attack that is intended to seize or inflict damage on or destroy an objective)

counterattack; countermove (an attack by a defending force against an attacking enemy force in order to regain lost ground or cut off enemy advance units etc.)

bombardment; bombing (an attack by dropping bombs)

fire; firing (the act of firing weapons or artillery at an enemy)

strafe (an attack of machine-gun fire or cannon fire from a low flying airplane)

coup de main; surprise attack (an attack without warning)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A forceful forward rush or flow

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Context example:

the explosion interrupted the wild onrush of her thoughts

Hypernyms ("onrush" is a kind of...):

rush; spate; surge; upsurge (a sudden forceful flow)