Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Assailing; attacking.
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- verb Present participle of
onset .
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Examples
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The film is set to feature the legendary actor as a baseball scout, saddled with onsetting blindness, near the end of his working days, who brings his daughter along on one final player evaluation trip.
Sandra Bullock: 'Trouble With The Curve' With Clint Eastwood Negotiations? 2011
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After Nixon and the onsetting of the Southern Strategy designed to turn all of those disenchanted racist Democrats of the South into Republicans for the purposes of gaining their vote, the demographics of both parties were forever changed.
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Type 2 used to be called adult onset diabetes, but we can't call it that anymore because it is onsetting with adolescents and even preteen kids.
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A well-done enema or colonic is such a powerful technique that a single one will often make a severe headache vanish, make an onsetting cold go away, end a bout of sinusitis, end an asthmatic attack, reduce the pain of acute arthritic inflammation, reduce or stop an allergic reaction.
How and When to Be Your Own Doctor Isabel Moser
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Most conversations that established coherence amid the onsetting din of mass-slurring hung reverently on these figures.
Alibi Weblog 2009
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After Nixon and the onsetting of the Southern Strategy designed to turn all of those disenchanted racist Democrats of the South into Republicans for the purposes of gaining their vote, the demographics of both parties were forever changed. jwest can deny these basic facts all it wants … all it’s really proving is that it’s an idiotic tool that has no ability to read, or comprehend, simple, basic, American history.
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