(Military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons)
1 The Germans had checked the onrush by the weight of their artillery.
2 She had been carried away by the mad onrush of her passion.
3 At the same instant there appeared the leaders of the onrush .
4 Then came an onrush of Romany, attracted to the glade by the fire.
5 So, yes, the hiccups were largely due to an onrush of Sling enlistees.
6 Something is approaching in a staccato onrush , a drumming on the flattened stone.
7 Unable to check his onrush , Vergilius leaped forward and fell out of sight.
8 As the coke entered my bloodstream I felt a euphoric onrush of sensation.
9 I have an unexpected onrush of something that feels like shame.
10 And the onrush of the pantechnicon constituted a clear crisis.
11 Its march, therefore, was in the nature of an onrush .
12 An onrush of sensation spread over him, obliterating all thoughts.
13 Men who have attained self-repression are occasionally open to a perilous onrush of feeling.
14 Lad, one eye ever on his foe, saw the onrush .
15 There was an onrush of blue-bloused porters, with metal plate numbers on their arms.
16 The wind in them sounded variously like the patter or the gathering onrush of rain.
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