Onrush

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Onrush \On"rush`\, n.
     A rushing onward.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  onrush
       n 1: (military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons);
            "the attack began at dawn" [syn: {attack}, {onslaught},
            {onset}]
       2: 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 onsrush of
          her thoughts"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  75 Moby Thesaurus words for "onrush":
     Brownian movement, advance, affluence, afflux, affluxion,
     angular motion, ascending, ascent, axial motion, backflowing,
     backing, backward motion, 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