Onslaught

//ˈɒn.slɔːt//

Synonyms for "onslaught" (130 found)

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Noun(2 words)
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Synonyms

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Related terms

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derived

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is a

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related to

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Translations

66 translations across 26 languages.

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Ancient Greek

1 entries
  • ὁρμή noun (fierce attack)

Belarusian

1 entries
  • на́ціск noun (fierce attack)

Bulgarian

1 entries
  • я́ростна ата́ка noun (fierce attack)

Catalan

2 entries
  • atac noun (fierce attack)
  • envestida noun (fierce attack)

Chinese Cantonese

1 entries
  • 猛攻 noun (fierce attack)

Chinese Mandarin

1 entries
  • 猛攻 noun (fierce attack)

Czech

4 entries
  • invaze noun (large quantity of people or things resembling an attack)
  • nájezd noun (large quantity of people or things resembling an attack)
  • nápor noun (large quantity of people or things resembling an attack)
  • příval noun (large quantity of people or things resembling an attack)

Finnish

4 entries
  • hyökkäys noun (fierce attack)
  • päällekarkaus noun (fierce attack)
  • rynnäkkö noun (fierce attack)
  • ryntäys noun (large quantity of people or things resembling an attack)

French

4 entries
  • assaut noun (fierce attack)
  • assaut noun (large quantity of people or things resembling an attack)
  • invasion noun (large quantity of people or things resembling an attack)
  • offensive noun (fierce attack)

Galician

4 entries
  • aluvión noun (large quantity of people or things resembling an attack)
  • asalto noun (fierce attack)
  • bimbión noun (fierce attack)
  • guinada noun (fierce attack)

German

3 entries
  • Angriff noun (fierce attack)
  • Ansturm noun (fierce attack)
  • Strum noun (fierce attack)

Greek

1 entries
  • ορμή noun (fierce attack)

Hungarian

3 entries
  • ostrom noun (large quantity of people or things resembling an attack)
  • roham noun (large quantity of people or things resembling an attack)
  • támadás noun (fierce attack)

Italian

2 entries
  • assalto noun (fierce attack)
  • invasione noun (large quantity of people or things resembling an attack)

Kazakh

4 entries
  • басу noun (large quantity of people or things resembling an attack)
  • торлау noun (large quantity of people or things resembling an attack)
  • қаптап кету noun (large quantity of people or things resembling an attack)
  • қаптау noun (large quantity of people or things resembling an attack)

Latin

1 entries
  • ēruptiō noun (fierce attack)

Māori

2 entries
  • ngaunga noun (fierce attack)
  • tukituki noun (fierce attack)

Polish

1 entries
  • atak noun (fierce attack)

Portuguese

3 entries
  • assalto noun (fierce attack)
  • invasão noun (large quantity of people or things resembling an attack)
  • investida noun (fierce attack)

Romanian

4 entries
  • asalt noun (fierce attack)
  • asalt noun (large quantity of people or things resembling an attack)
  • atac noun (fierce attack)
  • ofensivă noun (fierce attack)

Russian

3 entries
  • на́тиск noun (fierce attack)
  • на́тиск noun (large quantity of people or things resembling an attack)
  • наплы́в noun (large quantity of people or things resembling an attack)

Slovak

1 entries
  • útok noun (fierce attack)

Spanish

4 entries
  • acometida noun (fierce attack)
  • arremetida noun (fierce attack)
  • ataque noun (fierce attack)
  • avalancha noun (large quantity of people or things resembling an attack)

Swedish

3 entries
  • angrepp noun (fierce attack)
  • anstormning noun (large quantity of people or things resembling an attack)
  • våldsamt anfall noun (fierce attack)

Turkish

2 entries
  • saldırı noun (fierce attack)
  • taarruz noun (fierce attack)

Ukrainian

1 entries
  • на́тиск noun (fierce attack)

Sample sentences

8 total sentences available.

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Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.

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The defenders checked the onslaught by the attackers.

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Ideas are inherently conservative. They yield not to the attack of other ideas but to the massive onslaught of circumstance with which they cannot contend.

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Spain is reeling under the onslaught of the coronavirus.

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