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Onslaught   /ˈɔnslˌɔt/   Listen
Onslaught

noun
1.
A sudden and severe onset of trouble.
2.
(military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons).  Synonyms: attack, onrush, onset.
3.
The rapid and continuous delivery of linguistic communication (spoken or written).  Synonyms: barrage, bombardment, outpouring.  "A bombardment of mail complaining about his mistake"





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"Onslaught" Quotes from Famous Books



... the fighting had been so fierce and the enemy had been kept so busy in resisting the American onslaught that no such precaution had been taken. And this better than anything else told the boys how badly the enemy had ...
— Army Boys in the French Trenches • Homer Randall
... was skilfully decoyed beyond the Indian camp some distance, but its location was finally discovered and a fierce onslaught was made. The poor wretches at first begged for quarter, but as the soldiers shot them down without discrimination, they fought for a time with desperation, and then men, women and children plunged into the river, the most of them to ...
— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 • Charles H. Sylvester
... I had obligingly saved them the trouble of booting me very far, for I had been inching myself forward ever since the onslaught. When the captain spoke, I was almost at the head of the ladder to the main deck—an instant after he spoke, I was lying on the main deck at the foot of the poop ladder, and all the stars in the universe were ...
— The Blood Ship • Norman Springer
... heights of Inkerman, the charge of the noble Six Hundred, the fearful onslaught of the Guards at Waterloo, the scaling of Lookout Mountain,—have all been sung in story, and perhaps always will be; but they all pale beside the glory that will ever enshroud the heroes who, with perhaps not literally "cannon to right of them" and "cannon ...
— The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 6 • Various
... In the second place, conquered subjects even of backward races might be made useful for the purposes of war. This motive appealed most strongly to France. Her home population was stationary. She lived in constant dread of a new onslaught from her formidable neighbour; and she watched with alarm the rapid increase of that neighbour's population, and the incessant increases in the numbers of his armies. At a later date Germany also began to be attracted by the possibility ...
— The Expansion of Europe - The Culmination of Modern History • Ramsay Muir


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