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Main Entry: onset
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: beginning; attack

Synonyms:

access, aggression, assailment, assault, birth, charge, commencement, dawn, dawning, encounter, inception, incipience, kickoff, offense, offensive, onfall, onrush, onslaught, opening, origin, outbreak, outset, outstart, rush, seizure, start

Antonyms:

conclusion, end, ending, finish
Main Entry: advent
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: beginning or arrival of something anticipated

Synonyms:

appearance, approach, arrival, coming, entrance, occurrence, onset, visitation

Antonyms:

departure, end
Main Entry: aggression
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: attack, often military

Synonyms:

assailment, assault, blitz, blitzkrieg, encroachment, injury, invasion, offense, offensive, onset, onslaught, push, raid
Main Entry: assault
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: attack

Synonyms:

advance, aggression, charge, incursion, invasion, offensive, onset, onslaught, rape, storm, storming, strike, violation
Notes: to assail a task is to approach it with the intent of mastering it, from Latin salire 'to leap'; assault is also based on this word and assail and assault can be synonyms
assault is an attempt or threat to do physical harm while battery is unjustified application of force; assault and battery is carrying out of threatened physical harm or violence
Main Entry: attack
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: physical assault

Synonyms:

advance, aggression, assailing, assailment, barrage, blitz, blitzkrieg, charge, defilement, dirty deed, drive, encounter, encroachment, foray, incursion, initiative, inroad, intervention, intrusion, invasion, irruption, mugging, offense, offensive, onrush, onset, onslaught, outbreak, push, raid, rape, rush, skirmish, storming, strike, thrust, violation, volley

Antonyms:

aid, defense, flight, protection, resistance, retreat, shelter, shield, support, surrender, sustenance
Main Entry: battle
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: military fight

Synonyms:

action, assault, attack, barrage, blitzkreig, bloodshed, bombing, brush, campaign, carnage, clash, combat, conflict, contention, crusade, encounter, engagement, fighting, fray, havoc, hostility, onset, onslaught, press, ravage, scrimmage, significant contact, skirmish, sortie, strife, struggle, war, warfare

Antonyms:

truce
Main Entry: beginning
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: start of an event or action

Synonyms:

alpha, basis, birth, blastoff, commencement, creation, dawn, dawning, day one, genesis, inauguration, inception, induction, infancy, initiation, installation, introduction, kickoff, onset, opener, opening, origin, origination, outset, point of departure, preface, prelude, presentation, rise, root, rudiment, source, spring, square one, starting point, takeoff, threshold, top

Antonyms:

completion, conclusion, consummation, end, ending, finish, goal, termination
Main Entry: birth
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: beginning

Synonyms:

commencement, dawn, dawning, emergence, fountainhead, genesis, onset, opening, origin, outset, rise, source, start

Antonyms:

conclusion, death, end, ending, finish
Main Entry: charge
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: attack

Synonyms:

assault, blitz, blitzkrieg, invasion, mugging, onset, onslaught, outbreak, push, rush, sortie

Antonyms:

retreat
Main Entry: commencement
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: ceremony marking the beginning of stage

Synonyms:

admission, alpha, birth, bow, celebration, convocation, countdown, curtain-raiser, dawn, dawning, genesis, graduation, initiation, kickoff, onset, opener, opening, outset, proem, services, start, starting point, tee off

Antonyms:

cessation, completion, end, ending, finish, stop
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