oncoming
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3.4
- adjective
- /ˈɑnˌkʌmɪŋ/
- A honk from an oncoming car startles Marion, and she pulls back over just in time.
- oncoming traffic
- oncoming vehicle
- oncoming car
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Watch on YouTubeYeah, no, not off the curb into oncoming traffic.
- Yeah, no, not off the curb into oncoming traffic.
- I've probably seen heard Thunder three times in in California, the smell of an oncoming storm.
- Let's move that portal to a middle school in the Bronx, then we'll see when you'll be river dancing into oncoming traffic once our kids are done roasting you.
- You wouldn't see the oncoming Sabre toothed tiger and you wouldn't live to procreate your genes.
- There's an oncoming plane and we want them to read a very small set of letters that was taken from the eye chart on that oncoming plane.
Examples
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As she motors along a narrow road... she suddenly sees an oncoming truck swerving right towards her.
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According to the police, the father must have fallen asleep and crashed into an oncoming car.
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There was no oncoming traffic, and soon Joe pulled into the right lane to pass.
Academic text (2011) -
Why had she crossed the street in the path of an oncoming vehicle?
Fiction book (2001) -
The boy threw her into the street, where she was almost hit by an oncoming car.
Academic text (1997) -
The headlights of an oncoming car can blind you and your camera.
Academic text (2010) -
They crashed into an oncoming vehicle.
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Witnesses say one car crossed the center line and ran head-on into an oncoming bus killing the driver instantly.
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He didn't get more than 50 feet before he crashed into an oncoming car.
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The oncoming vehicle quickly approached, forcing me to pull over to the side of the road.
Synonyms
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3.2
Arriving at a place, often new to it
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4.2
Moving forward very fast and with great force, like a train or a flood
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2.7
The coming closer in time or space
Antonyms
How Near
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Etymology
The word oncoming comes from the simple parts on ('toward') and come ('move toward'), so it literally means 'coming toward you'. That's why an oncoming car, train, or storm is one approaching from the opposite direction.