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# onslaught

«onslaught» in Mova's school dictionary: **a fierce, sudden attack, when many people or things rush…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (onslaughts)

### meaning for a pupil

An onslaught is a fierce, sudden attack, when many people or things rush at once. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/onslaught/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in battles and tales, a hero's fierce attack on the enemy

### examples

- The knights made a fierce onslaught on the castle gate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/onslaught/#x1)
- The army's onslaught scattered the enemy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/onslaught/#x2)
- The storm was a wild onslaught on the little village. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/onslaught/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «onslaught» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/onslaught/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.