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onrush

[ on-ruhsh, awn- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

onrush

/ ˈɒnˌrʌʃ /

Origin of onrush¹

1835–45; on + rush ¹, after the verb phrase rush on

When the slide ended and the air cleared, Campbell could see Hjertaas, who had avoided the onrush of debris, but Kosakoski was missing.

The existing ISSCR guidelines, issued in 2016, are being updated because of an onrush of new, boundary-busting research.

The Germans were taken completely by surprise, and gave way before the impetuous onrush.

Their red jersies flaming in the sun, they were like the onrush of a flaming prairie fire.

At the sight of their onrush Dorothy caught up the pouch she had dropped and started to retreat—too late!

She remembered everything now, and with this sudden onrush of memory of the past, came fuller consciousness of the present.

For a long time Italy maintained neutrality, but the onrush of conditions forced her into the war, also on the side of the Allies.

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