Definition of Onset

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Definition of Onset

Onset

A rushing or setting upon; an attack; an assault; a storming; especially, the assault of an army.

A setting about; a beginning.

Anything set on, or added, as an ornament or as a useful appendage.

To assault; to set upon.

To set about; to begin.

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Onset Quotations

Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

More fundamentally, it is a dream that does not die with the onset of manhood: the dream is to play endlessly, past the time when you are called home for dinner, past the time of doing chores, past the time when your body betrays you past time itself.
John Thorn

Obviously with the onset of cable and satellite, there are more opportunities for programming and original programming, so it creates more opportunities for actors and producers and directors and everything.
Anthony Michael Hall

We know that so many of the conditions and diseases that we associate with ageing can often be prevented or in fact their onset delayed if we just took preventative steps earlier in our lives.
Julie Bishop

They show that roughly two-thirds of a group of neurotic patients will recover or improve to a marked extent within about two years of the onset of their illness, whether they are treated by means of psychotherapy or not.
Hans Eysenck

Onset Translations

onset in German is Angriff {m}
onset in Italian is assalto
onset in Latin is procella
onset in Swedish is anfall

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