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onrush

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6 lettersPronunciation /ˈɒnˌɹʌʃ/Part of speech nounSorted hnorsuStarts with OEnds with H0 clues
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Definitions

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

Word origin

From on- + rush. Compare Middle English onresen (“to rush upon; attack”), from Old English onrǣsan (“to rush, rush on”); Old English onrǣs (“an onrush, assault, attack”).

Used in a sentence

  • So persistent is the onrush of new construction in New York that the first temptation for the architecture buff is to track down the latest things, be they good or bad […]
  • He caught Grendel's right hand, and still without rising from his bed, stopped the monster's onrush.
  • Werner’s run had created the space and Havertz got there before the onrushing Ederson, catching a little break off the goalkeeper before rolling it into the empty net.

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