onslaught

English

Alternative forms

• anslaight

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɒnslɔːt/

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Noun

onslaught (plural onslaughts)

1. A fierce attack.

   Synonym: onrush

2. (by extension) A large number of people or things resembling an attack.

   They opened the doors and prepared for the onslaught of holiday shoppers.

   • 2010 December 28, Kevin Darling, “West Brom 1 - 3 Blackburn”, in BBC‎^[1]:

     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.

Translations

fierce attack

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: на́ціск m (nácisk)
• Bulgarian: я́ростна ата́ка f (járostna atáka)
• Catalan: envestida (ca) f, atac (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 猛攻 (maang⁶ gung¹)

  Mandarin: 猛攻 (zh) (měnggōng)

• Crimean Tatar: please add this translation if you can
• Czech: úder (cs) m, útok (cs) m
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: hyökkäys (fi), päällekarkaus (fi), rynnäkkö (fi)
• French: assaut (fr) m, offensive (fr) f
• Galician: guinada f, bimbión m, asalto m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Angriff (de) m, Ansturm (de) m, Strum m
• Greek: ορμή (el) f (ormí)

  Ancient: ὁρμή f (hormḗ)

• Hungarian: támadás (hu)
• Italian: assalto (it) m
• Latin: ēruptiō f
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Maori: tukituki, ngaunga
• Polish: atak (pl) m
• Portuguese: assalto (pt) m, investida (pt) f
• Romanian: asalt (ro) n, ofensivă (ro) f, atac (ro) n
• Russian: на́тиск (ru) m (nátisk)
• Slovak: útok m
• Spanish: embestida (es) f, ataque (es) m, arremetida (es) f, acometida (es)
• Swedish: angrepp (sv), våldsamt anfall
• Turkish: taarruz (tr), saldırı (tr)
• Ukrainian: на́тиск m (nátysk)

large quantity of people or things resembling an attack

• Czech: nájezd (cs) m, invaze (cs) f
• Finnish: ryntäys
• French: assaut (fr) m
• Galician: riola (gl) f, presa (gl) f, aluvión m
• Hungarian: roham (hu), ostrom (hu)
• Italian: invasione (it) f
• Portuguese: invasão (pt) f
• Romanian: asalt (ro) n
• Russian: наплы́в (ru) m (naplýv), на́тиск (ru) m (nátisk)
• Spanish: avalancha (es) f
• Swedish: anstormning (sv)

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Translations to be checked

• Spanish: asalto (es)

See also

• slew

References

• “onslaught”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.