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Answer for the clue "Onslaught ", 7 letters:
assault

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., earlier asaut (c.1200), from Old French asaut , assaut "an attack, an assault, attacking forces" (12c.), from Vulgar Latin *adsaltus "attack, assault," from ad "to" (see ad- ) + Latin saltus "a leap," from salire "to leap, spring" (see assail ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A violent onset or attack with physical means, as blows, weapons, etc.; an onslaught; the rush or charge of an attacking force; onset; as, to make assault upon a man, a house, or a town. 2 A violent onset or attack with moral weapons, as words, arguments, ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Assault \As*sault"\, n. [OE. asaut, assaut, OF. assaut, asalt, F. assaut, LL. assaltus; L. ad + saltus a leaping, a springing, salire to leap. See Assail .] A violent onset or attack with physical means, as blows, weapons, etc.; an onslaught; the rush or ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
v. attack someone physically or emotionally; "The mugger assaulted the woman"; "Nightmares assailed him regularly" [syn: assail , set on , attack ] force (someone) to have sex against their will; "The woman was raped on her way home at night" [syn: rape ...

Usage examples of assault.

The name of his partially duped accomplice and abettor in this last marvelous assault, is no other than PHILIP LYNCH, Editor and Proprietor of the Gold Hill News.

Since they were aboard unlawfully, any punishment meted out to them was an assault, and would be the subject of a criminal charge once the men were back with their true captain.

I had all the clothing, body armor, abseil kit, the lot, and the weapons that any member of the assault group would be taking, and there was Fat Boy, who was dressed up in the kit.

An elderly family friend had abused her when she was six, and she had been indecently assaulted in a Gloucester park at the age of thirteen.

They were going to charge Abies with the murder of Deputy Marshal Bascombe, and Mellis with assault on a federal officer, while reserving future charges against twelve-year-old Judith.

Or were they even now massing for a devastating assault on Achar through Ichtar?

If the victim acquiesces, the sadistic offender may perceive her as an active participant in the assault.

Shebbeare, a public writer, who, in a series of printed letters to the people of England, had animadverted on the conduct of the ministry in the most acrimonious terms, stigmatized some great names with all the virulence of censure, and even assaulted the throne itself with oblique insinuation and ironical satire.

It is probable, however, that neither side actually realized that war was inevitable, and that the other was determined to fight, until the assault on Fort Sumter presented the South as the first aggressor and roused the North to use every possible resource to maintain the government and the imperilled Union, and to vindicate the supremacy of the flag over every inch of the territory of the United States.

At the same time that the airmobile force landed on the roof, assault teams entered on the ground level, securing the elevators and stairwells.

A number of enemy radar tracks converge there, and we believe it may be a helicopter staging area for a airmobile assault, almost certainly.

Likeliest would be an airmobile assault by helicopter coming out of the southeast, mountain-hopping across the rugged, forested border with Greece.

At last, amidst our amorous assaults, Marcoline, feeling how dearly I loved her, told me what had passed between her and Madame Audibert.

I then began to caress her, and to make assaults in the style of an amorous man, but it was all in vain, though I succeeded in stretching her on a large sofa.

Behind these small ships, the overlapped shields of the foremost ballistas flickered imperceptibly in precise timing as they launched a volley of defensive projectile fire, driving back the first robot assault, annihilating many of the machine suicide ships before they could get through.