The word "onrush" is a perfectly acceptable word in written English.
It is typically used to describe a sudden, powerful arrival or onslaught of something, usually negative in nature. For example: "The onrush of the tsunami was devastating, causing widespread destruction in the region."
I have an unexpected onrush of something that feels like shame.
The biggest for firms in Europe today is the sweeping away of borders and the onrush of international capital.
The onrush of so many projects at one time is certainly daring: not since Mrs Thatcher has a British politician seemed in quite so much of a hurry to do a lot.
There is the same onrush of innovation; the same straining at the social fabric as immigration surges, industries restructure and inequalities widen; and the same pell-mell creation of new wealth.
Now, thanks to an onrush of claims (see chart), it has become a peculiarly dispersed affair, with all sorts of claimants, including entire cities and Indian tribes.
FOR those who think that an onrush of democracy is the answer to the Arab world's malaise, these books are disheartening.
It speaks for a country where the hierarchy is reeling from horrific revelations about abuse in church-run institutions and clerical cover-ups, but where the population, despite the onrush of secularism, remains relatively pious by the standards of the rich world.The village exemplifies both the crisis and strength of Irish Catholicism.
Chinese officials have given no hint that they are considering any changes on their side.Even if a way is found to stem the onrush of shoppers, Hong Kong faces a difficult year.
… Let me step back as far as I can and say that what I remember most about my beginnings, besides the voice of my mother striding down through layers of dark to where I lay under the wonder of the onrush of sleep, is how I felt set apart".
Instead of amusing his audience with talking mice and singing cows, Disney was determined to give them as profound a dramatic experience as the medium would allow; he reached into his own troubled childhood to interpret this rich fable of parental abandonment, sibling rivalry, and the onrush of adult passion.
Frequently, the wave front in the inlet is nearly vertical, as in a tidal bore, and the speed of onrush may be on the order of 10 metres per second.
