onfall
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onfall
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From Middle English onfal, onfalle, equivalent to on- + fall. Cognate with Dutch aanval (“an attack, assault”), German Anfall (“an attack, seizure, fit”), Swedish anfall (“an attack, offensive, assault”). Compare also Middle English onfallynge (“an onslaught, attack”).
noun onfalls
- A falling on or upon; an attack, onset, or assault. Are we to have military onfall; and death also by starvation?
- A fall of rain or snow.
- The fall of the evening.
verb onfalls · onfalling · onfell · onfallen
- To fall on or upon. [...] have been formed and ripened in large numbers, especially on the shaded ower sides of the leaves, the mycelium is practically exhausted, and as these processes are completed towards the end of the summer, the leaf so onfalls.
- To assault, attack.
Talk about this word "onfall." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/onfall. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. onfall. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/onfall "onfall." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/onfall.Cite this
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title = {onfall},
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