onrush
English
Etymology
From on- + rush. Compare Middle English onresen (“to rush upon; attack”), from Old English onrǣsan (“to rush, rush on”); Old English onrǣs (“an onrush, assault, attack”).
Pronunciation
Noun
onrush (plural onrushes)
- A forceful rush or flow forward.
- 1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh, New York: C.S. Francis & Co., 1857, First Book, pp. 32-33,[1]
- The love within us and the love without
- Are mixed, confounded; if we are loved or love,
- We scarce distinguish. So, with other power.
- Being acted on and acting seem the same:
- In that first onrush of life’s chariot-wheels,
- We know not if the forests move or we.
- 1958, Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart, London: William Heinemann, Chapter 22,
- For a brief moment the onrush of the egwugwu [masked men representing ancestral spirits] was checked by the unexpected composure of the two men. But it was only a momentary check, like the tense silence between blasts of thunder. The second onrush was greater than the first. It swallowed up the two men.
- 1987, Paul Goldberger, “A Baker’s Dozen of New York City’s Urban Masterpieces,” New York Times, 31 July, 1987,[2]
- So persistent is the onrush of new construction in New York that the first temptation for the architecture buff is to track down the latest things, be they good or bad […]
- 1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh, New York: C.S. Francis & Co., 1857, First Book, pp. 32-33,[1]
- An aggressive assault.
Synonyms
Translations
forceful rush
aggressive assault
|
Verb
onrush (third-person singular simple present onrushes, present participle onrushing, simple past and past participle onrushed)
- To rush or flow forward forcefully.
- To assault aggressively.
Translations
rush forcefully
|
assault aggressively
|