By storm and onslaught to proceed. --Hudibras.
[1913 Webster]
2. A bloody fray or battle. [Scot.] --Jamieson. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
Onslaught — Personnage de fiction apparaissant dans X Men Alias Aucun. Onslaught est une entité psionique créée à partir des consciences du Professeur Xavier et de … Wikipédia en Français
Onslaught — may refer to: Onslaught (comics), a Marvel Comics supervillain Onslaught (Magic: The Gathering), an expansion to the Magic: The Gathering collectible card game Onslaught (video game), a 1989 Amiga beat em up computer game Onslaught (2009 video… … Wikipedia
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Onslaught — Allgemeine Informationen Genre(s) Thrash Metal Gründung 1983 Auflösung 1991 Neugründung 2005 Website … Deutsch Wikipedia
onslaught — index assault, battery, incursion, onset (assault), outbreak, violence Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton … Law dictionary
onslaught — 1620s, anslaight, somehow from or on analogy of Du. aanslag attack, from M.Du. aenslach, from aen on + slach blow, related to slaen slay. Spelling influenced by obs. (since c.1400) English slaught (n.) slaughter, from O.E. sleaht (see SLAUGHTER… … Etymology dictionary
onslaught — *attack, assault, onset Analogous words: see those at ONSET … New Dictionary of Synonyms
onslaught — [n] attack aggression, assailment, assault, blitz, charge, incursion, invasion, offense, offensive, onfall, onrush, onset; concept 86 Ant. defense … New thesaurus
onslaught — ► NOUN 1) a fierce or destructive attack. 2) an overwhelmingly large quantity of people or things. ORIGIN Dutch aenslag, from aen on + slag blow … English terms dictionary
onslaught — [än′slôt΄] n. [altered (infl. by SLAUGHTER) < Du annslag < slagen, to strike: see SLAY] a violent, intense attack … English World dictionary
