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Onslaught vs Attacks - What's the difference?

onslaught | attacks |

As nouns the difference between onslaught and attacks

is that onslaught is a fierce attack while attacks is .

As a verb attacks is

third-person singular simple present of to attack .

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

    attacks

    English

    Noun

    (head)

    • Verb

    (head)
  • Third-person singular simple present of to attack .
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