onslaught

Significado (Inglés)

  1. A fierce attack.
  2. (broadly) A large number of people or things resembling an attack.

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Pronunciado como (IPA)
/ˈɒnslɔːt/
Etimología (Inglés)

In summary

From on- + slaught. Formed after Middle Dutch aenslag, aenslach, equivalent to aen + slag, although slaught corresponds to Middle Dutch slacht; slag is cognate with the English weaving term sley. Compare Dutch aanslag and German Anschlag.

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