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Synonyms and Antonyms of onsets
- the walls withstood the onset of the first battalion
aggressions, assaults, attacks, attempts, blitzes, blitzkriegs, charges, coups de main, descents, offenses (or offences), offensives, onslaughts, raids, rushes, strikes
counteraggressions (or counter-aggressions), counterassaults (also counter-assaults), counterattacks (or counter-attacks), counteroffensives, counterstrikes (or counter-strikes)
breakthroughs, forays, incursions, invasions
air raids, bombardments, bombings
barrages, cannonades, fusillades, hails, salvos (or salvoes), volleys
- the claim that if you take enough vitamin C at the onset of a cold, you'll often recover faster
alphas, baselines, beginnings, births, commencements, dawns, day ones, geneses, get-goes (also git-goes), inceptions, incipiences, incipiencies, kickoffs, launches, mornings, nascences, nascencies, outsets, starts, thresholds
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