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onslaught

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
onslaught/ˈɒnslɔːt/

▶noun a fierce or destructive attack.

■ an overwhelmingly large quantity of people or things.

– origin C17 (also as anslaight): from MDu. aenslag, from aen ‘on’ + slag ‘blow’, assoc. with obs. slaught ‘slaughter’.

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