Usage of "onrush" | TermGallery

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(Military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons)

Uso de onrush em inglês

The Germans had checked the onrush by the weight of their artillery. 
 "Contemptible", by "Casualty" 

She had been carried away by the mad onrush of her passion. 
 Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall 

At the same instant there appeared the leaders of the onrush. 
 The Girl Aviators on Golden Wings 

Then came an onrush of Romany, attracted to the glade by the fire. 
 Red Money 

So, yes, the hiccups were largely due to an onrush of Sling enlistees. 
 Wired 

Something is approaching in a staccato onrush, a drumming on the flattened stone. 
 Iron Council 

Unable to check his onrush, Vergilius leaped forward and fell out of sight. 
 Vergilius: A Tale of the Coming of Christ 

As the coke entered my bloodstream I felt a euphoric onrush of sensation. 
 High on arrival 

I have an unexpected onrush of something that feels like shame. 
 The Guardian 

And the onrush of the pantechnicon constituted a clear crisis. 
 The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns 

Its march, therefore, was in the nature of an onrush. 
 The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of 12) / The War Begins,... 

An onrush of sensation spread over him, obliterating all thoughts. 
 Avalon 

Men who have attained self-repression are occasionally open to a perilous onrush of feeling. 
 The Masquerader 

Lad, one eye ever on his foe, saw the onrush. 
 Further Adventures of Lad 

There was an onrush of blue-bloused porters, with metal plate numbers on their arms. 
 Jaffery 

The wind in them sounded variously like the patter or the gathering onrush of rain. 
 The Land of Footprints 

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Onrush ao longo do tempo

Onrush nas variantes da língua

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Significados de onrush em inglês