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Noun onrush has 2 senses

• onrush(n = noun.act) attack, onset, onslaught - (military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons); "the attack began at dawn"
is a kind of military operation, operation
has particulars: ground attack, charge, banzai attack, banzai charge, diversion, diversionary attack, incursion, penetration, blitz, blitzkrieg, strike, counterattack, countermove, bombardment, bombing, fire, firing, strafe, coup de main, surprise attack
has parts: assault

• onrush(n = noun.event) Array - 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"
is a kind of rush, spate, surge, upsurge

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THESAURUS

onrush

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

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