onslaught

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɒn.slɔːt/
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• Australian, British, Southern, Standard: /ˈɔnsloːt/
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• Northern-US: /ˈɑn.slɔt/ without the cot–caught merger
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• /ˈɔn.slɔt/ Midland US, Southern US, without the cot–caught merger
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• cot-caught-merger: /ˈɑn.slɑt/
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• US: cot-caught Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• Scotland: /ˈɔnslɔt/
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• CMU ARPABET: AO1 N S L AO2 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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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.

66 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Belarusian: на́ціск (nácisk) — fierce attack
• Bulgarian: я́ростна ата́ка (járostna atáka) — fierce attack
• Catalan: envestida — fierce attack
• Catalan: atac — fierce attack
• Chinese Cantonese: 猛攻 (maang6 gung1) — fierce attack
• Chinese Mandarin: 猛攻 (měnggōng) — fierce attack
• Czech: úder — fierce attack
• Czech: útok — fierce attack
• Finnish: hyökkäys — fierce attack
• Finnish: päällekarkaus — fierce attack
• Finnish: rynnäkkö — fierce attack
• French: assaut — fierce attack
• French: offensive — fierce attack
• Galician: guinada — fierce attack
• Galician: bimbión — fierce attack
• Galician: asalto — fierce attack
• German: Angriff — fierce attack
• German: Ansturm — fierce attack
• German: Strum — fierce attack
• Greek: ορμή (ormí) — fierce attack
• Ancient Greek: ὁρμή (hormḗ) — fierce attack
• Hungarian: támadás — fierce attack
• Italian: assalto — fierce attack
• Latin: ēruptiō — fierce attack
• Māori: tukituki — fierce attack
• Māori: ngaunga — fierce attack
• Polish: atak — fierce attack
• Portuguese: assalto — fierce attack
• Portuguese: investida — fierce attack
• Romanian: asalt — fierce attack
• Romanian: ofensivă — fierce attack
• Romanian: atac — fierce attack
• Russian: на́тиск (nátisk) — fierce attack
• Slovak: útok — fierce attack
• Spanish: embestida — fierce attack
• Spanish: ataque — fierce attack
• Spanish: arremetida — fierce attack
• Spanish: acometida — fierce attack
• Swedish: angrepp — fierce attack
• Swedish: våldsamt anfall — fierce attack
• Turkish: taarruz — fierce attack
• Turkish: saldırı — fierce attack
• Ukrainian: на́тиск (nátysk) — fierce attack
• Czech: nájezd — large quantity of people or things resembling an attack
• Czech: invaze — large quantity of people or things resembling an attack
• Czech: nápor — large quantity of people or things resembling an attack
• Czech: příval — large quantity of people or things resembling an attack
• Finnish: ryntäys — large quantity of people or things resembling an attack
• French: assaut — large quantity of people or things resembling an attack
• French: invasion — large quantity of people or things resembling an attack
• Galician: riola — large quantity of people or things resembling an attack
• Galician: presa — large quantity of people or things resembling an attack
• Galician: aluvión — large quantity of people or things resembling an attack
• Hungarian: roham — large quantity of people or things resembling an attack
• Hungarian: ostrom — large quantity of people or things resembling an attack
• Italian: invasione — large quantity of people or things resembling an attack
• Kazakh: қаптау (qaptau) — large quantity of people or things resembling an attack
• Kazakh: қаптап кету (qaptap ketu) — large quantity of people or things resembling an attack
• Kazakh: торлау (torlau) — large quantity of people or things resembling an attack
• Kazakh: басу (basu) — large quantity of people or things resembling an attack
• Portuguese: invasão — large quantity of people or things resembling an attack
• Romanian: asalt — large quantity of people or things resembling an attack
• Russian: наплы́в (naplýv) — large quantity of people or things resembling an attack
• Russian: на́тиск (nátisk) — large quantity of people or things resembling an attack
• Spanish: avalancha — large quantity of people or things resembling an attack
• Swedish: anstormning — large quantity of people or things resembling an attack