| Main Entry: | onslaught |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | attack |
Synonyms: |
aggression, assailment, assault, blitz, charge, incursion, invasion, offense, offensive, onfall, onrush, onset |
Antonyms: |
defense |
| 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: | barrage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | profusion of something |
Synonyms: |
assault, attack, blast, bombardment, burst, deluge, hail, mass, onslaught, plethora, rain, shower, storm, stream, surge, torrent |
| Main Entry: | battery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | physical abuse |
Synonyms: |
assault, attack, beating, mayhem, mugging, onslaught, thumping, violence |
| 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: | blitz |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | heavy attack |
Synonyms: |
assault, blitzkrieg, bombardment, bombing, lightning attack, offensive, onslaught, raid, shelling, strike |
Antonyms: |
let-up |
| 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: | diatribe |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | harangue, criticism |
Synonyms: |
abuse, castigation, denunciation, disputation, invective, jeremiad, objection, onslaught, philippic, reviling, screed, stricture, tirade, vituperation |
Antonyms: |
praise, recommendation |