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onslaught

Syllables: on·slaughtUK/ˈɒn.slɔːt/

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Australia/ˈɔnsloːt/

onslaught noun: a fierce attack.

Noun

onslaught (plural onslaughts)

  1. A fierce attack.
    Synonyms:
    onrush
  2. (broadly) A large number of people or things resembling an attack.
    • They opened the doors and prepared for the onslaught of holiday shoppers.
    • The inevitable Baggies onslaught followed as substitute Simon Cox saw his strike excellently parried by keeper Bunn, with Cox heading the rebound down into the ground and agonisingly over the bar.2010 December 28, Kevin Darling, “West Brom 1 - 3 Blackburn”, in BBC

onslaught meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

onslaught in Tamil

கடும்தாக்கு, சினத்தாக்கு, மோதல்

onslaught in Urdu

حملہ, وار, یورش

onslaught in Bengali

প্রচণ্ড আক্রমণ, প্রবল আঘাত

onslaught in Malayalam

കടന്നാക്രമണം
More languagesFewer languages
onslaught in Kannada
ತೀವ್ರದಾಳಿ, ಬಿರುಸಿನ ದಾಳಿ, ಹಲ್ಲೆ, ತತ್ತರಿಸುವಂತೆ ಮಾಡುವ ಆಕ್ರಮಣ

Examples of onslaught in a sentence

  • The neighbourhoods of Crystal Palace Park have, one by one, fallen before the onslaught of the gentrifiers.
  • When he jackhammered into her, she clutched the bedspread and braced herself for the onslaught.
  • "There's such an onslaught of people wanting information, people wanting this, that and the other," she says.

All 23 example sentences with onslaught

Synonyms of onslaught

Forms of onslaught

pluralonslaughts
alternative formanslaight

Plural of onslaught: onslaughts

Origin of onslaught

From on- + slaught. Formed after Middle Dutch aenslag, aenslach, equivalent to aen + slag, although slaught corresponds to Middle Dutch slacht; slag is cognate with the English weaving term sley. Compare Dutch aanslag and German Anschlag.

Words formed from onslaught

Questions about onslaught

What does onslaught mean?
Onslaught means a fierce attack.
What is onslaught in Tamil?
Onslaught in Tamil is கடும்தாக்கு, சினத்தாக்கு, மோதல். See Onslaught meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is onslaught?
Onslaught is a noun.
How do you pronounce onslaught?
Onslaught is pronounced /ˈɒn.slɔːt/ (UK).
What is the plural of onslaught?
The plural of onslaught is onslaughts.

Words near onslaught in the dictionary

  1. onsight
  2. onsighted
  3. onsighting
  4. onsights
  5. onsite
  6. onslaught
  7. onslaughter
  8. onslaughters
  9. onslaughts
  10. onslip
  11. onslips

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Adapted from Wiktionary: onslaught (page history and authors); onslaught (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); onslaught (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); onslaught (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); onslaught (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); onslaught (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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