Definitions for onslaught

onslaught on·slaught

Spelling: [on-slawt, awn-]
IPA: /ˈɒnˌslɔt, ˈɔn-/

Onslaught is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 574 anagrams from letters in onslaught (aghlnostu).

Definitions for onslaught

noun

  1. an onset, assault, or attack, especially a vigorous one.

Origin of onslaught

1615-25; Dutch aanslag a striking, (earlier) attack (equivalent to aan on + slag blow, stroke; akin to slay), with a

Examples for onslaught

Nearby, Loescher added, parking lots are a great place to see the onslaught.

Kirkwood turned to meet her onslaught with a mien grave, determined, unflinching.

And the onslaught of the elements has helped raise tensions to the point where a new explosion is expected any day.

She said the weapons were meant for ISIS troops involved in the onslaught on Rojava.

And the surprise of his onslaught proved an ally of unguessed potency.

More than a dozen times he rescued the U.S. from the Belgian onslaught, improbably blocking shot after shot.

If so, he could easily have risked some 20,000 in the first onslaught.

And so forty-eight hours were left one to prepare for the onslaught.

Now Tehran is making mass arrests to try to stop the onslaught.

General Foch not only checked the German onslaught, but drove it back.

Word Value for onslaught
Scrable

13

Words with friends

16

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