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Onslaught vs Incursion - What's the difference?

onslaught | incursion | Synonyms |

Onslaught is a synonym of incursion.


As nouns the difference between onslaught and incursion

is that onslaught is a fierce attack while incursion is raid; incursion.

onslaught

English

Noun

(wikipedia onslaught) (en noun)
  • A fierce attack.
  • A large quantity of people or things resembling an attack.
    • They opened the doors and prepared for the onslaught of holiday shoppers.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2010 , date=December 28 , author=Kevin Darling , title=West Brom 1 - 3 Blackburn , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=The inevitable Baggies onslaught followed as substitute Simon Cox saw his strike excellently parried by keeper Bunn, with Cox heading the rebound down into the ground and agonisingly over the bar. }}

    See also

    * slew

    incursion

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An aggressive movement into somewhere; an invasion.

    • Synonyms

    * attack * movement