'onrush' definitions:
Definition of 'onrush'
(from WordNet)
noun
(military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons); "the attack began at dawn" [syn: attack, onslaught, onset, onrush]
noun
A forceful forward rush or flow; "from the bow she stared at the mesmerising onrush of the sea where it split and foamed"; "the explosion interrupted the wild onrush of her thoughts"
Synonyms of 'onrush'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- advance,
- affluence,
- afflux,
- affluxion,
- angular motion,
- ascending,
- ascent,
- axial motion,
- backflowing,
- backing,
- backward motion,
- Brownian movement,
- career,
- climbing,
- concourse,
- confluence,
- conflux,
- course,
- crosscurrent,
- current,
- defluxion,
- descending,
- descent,
- downflow,
- downpour,
- downward motion,
- drift,
- driftage,
- ebbing,
- flight,
- flow,
- flowing,
- fluency,
- flux,
- forward motion,
- gush,
- inflow,
- mill run,
- millrace,
- mounting,
- oblique motion,
- ongoing,
- onward course,
- outflow,
- passage,
- plunging,
- progress,
- race,
- radial motion,
- random motion,
- reflowing,
- refluence,
- reflux,
- regression,
- retrogression,
- rising,
- run,
- rush,
- set,
- sideward motion,
- sinking,
- soaring,
- spate,
- sternway,
- stream,
- subsiding,
- surge,
- tide,
- traject,
- trajet,
- trend,
- undercurrent,
- undertow,
- upward motion,
- water flow