Storm
[stɔːm] or [stɔrm]
Definition
(noun.) a direct and violent assault on a stronghold.
(noun.) a violent weather condition with winds 64-72 knots (11 on the Beaufort scale) and precipitation and thunder and lightning.
(noun.) a violent commotion or disturbance; 'the storms that had characterized their relationship had died away'; 'it was only a tempest in a teapot'.
(verb.) attack by storm; attack suddenly.
(verb.) take by force; 'Storm the fort'.
(verb.) blow hard; 'It was storming all night'.
(verb.) rain, hail, or snow hard and be very windy, often with thunder or lightning; 'If it storms, we'll need shelter'.
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Definition
(n.) A violent disturbance of the atmosphere, attended by wind, rain, snow, hail, or thunder and lightning; hence, often, a heavy fall of rain, snow, or hail, whether accompanied with wind or not.
(n.) A violent agitation of human society; a civil, political, or domestic commotion; sedition, insurrection, or war; violent outbreak; clamor; tumult.
(n.) A heavy shower or fall, any adverse outburst of tumultuous force; violence.
(n.) A violent assault on a fortified place; a furious attempt of troops to enter and take a fortified place by scaling the walls, forcing the gates, or the like.
(v. t.) To assault; to attack, and attempt to take, by scaling walls, forcing gates, breaches, or the like; as, to storm a fortified town.
(v. i.) To raise a tempest.
(v. i.) To blow with violence; also, to rain, hail, snow, or the like, usually in a violent manner, or with high wind; -- used impersonally; as, it storms.
(v. i.) To rage; to be in a violent passion; to fume.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Tempest, gale, SQUALL, hurricane, TORNADO, violent wind (usually accompanied with rain, hail, or snow).[2]. Disturbance, agitation, commotion, tumult, turmoil, clamor, sedition, insurrection, outbreak.[3]. Calamity, adversity, distress.[4]. Attack, assault, onslaught, onset, first brunt.
v. a. Attack (with violence, as a fortification), assault.
v. n. [1]. Blow violently (with or without rain, hail, or snow).[2]. Rage, fume.
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Definition
n. a violent commotion of the atmosphere producing wind rain &c.: a tempest: a fall of snow a prolonged frost: an outbreak of anger or the like: violent agitation of society: commotion: tumult: calamity: (mil.) an assault.—v.i. to raise a tempest: to blow with violence: to be in a violent passion.—v.t. to attack by open force: to assault.—n. Storm′-ā′rea the area covered by a storm.—adjs. Storm′-beat -beat′en beaten or injured by storms.—ns. Storm′-belt a belt of maximum storm frequency; Storm′-bird a petrel.—adj. Storm′bound delayed by storms.—ns. Storm′-card a sailors' chart showing from the direction of the wind the ship's position in relation to a storm-centre and accordingly the proper course to be shaped; Storm′-cen′tre the position of lowest pressure in a cyclonic storm; Storm′-cock the fieldfare: the mistle-thrush; Storm′-cone a cone of canvas stretched on a frame 3 feet high as a storm-signal; Storm′-door an outer supplementary door to shelter the interior of a building; Storm′-drum a canvas cylinder extended on a hoop 3 feet high by 3 feet wide hoisted in conjunction with the cone as a storm-signal.—adj. Storm′ful abounding with storms.—ns. Storm′fulness; Storm′-glass a tube containing a solution of camphor the amount of the precipitate varying with the weather; Storm′-house a temporary shelter for men working on a railway &c.; Storm′iness; Storm′ing-par′ty the party of men who first enter the breach or scale the walls in storming a fortress.—adj. Storm′less without storms.—ns. Storm′-sail a sail of the strongest canvas for stormy weather; Storm′-sig′nal a signal displayed on seacoasts &c. to intimate the approach of a storm by the cone and drum or by flags and lanterns in the United States; Storm′-stay a stay on which a storm-sail is set.—adjs. Storm′-stayed hindered from proceeding by storms; Storm′-tossed tossed about by storms: much agitated by conflicting passions.—ns. Storm′-wind a wind that brings a storm a hurricane; Storm′-win′dow a window raised above the roof slated above and at the sides.—adj. Storm′y having many storms: agitated with furious winds: boisterous: violent: passionate.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To see and hear a storm approaching, foretells continued sickness, unfavorable business, and separation from friends, which will cause added distress. If the storm passes, your affliction will not be so heavy. See Hurricane and Rain.
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Examples
- He knew with the first breath he drew that the snow had been only a freak storm in the mountains and it would be gone by noon. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The sleeper moving an arm, he sat down again in his chair, and feigned to watch the storm from the window. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- For hours the fury of the storm continued without surcease, and still the tribe huddled close in shivering fear. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- He puts his trust in a snow-cloud; the wilderness, the wind, and the hail-storm are his refuge; his allies are the elements--air, fire, water. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Come, Dick, you cannot say the Count had anything to do with the storm. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Something new for your coachman and horses to be making their way through a storm of snow. Jane Austen. Emma.
- He stood up to defend Aspasia, he was seized by a storm of very human emotion, and as he spoke he wept--a gleeful thing for the rabble. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I don't know how long it will last, but I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- I do not suppose all storms generated in the same manner. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- They have braved the storms and sieges of three thousand years, and have been shaken by many an earthquake, but still they stand. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It was the law of my fathers, said Rebecca; it was delivered in thunders and in storms upon the mountain of Sinai, in cloud and in fire. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The flood and storms did more harm to continental Europe than to us--giving, as it were, the last blow to the calamities which destroyed it. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- From thence I formed an idea of the cause of these storms, which I would explain by a familiar instance or two. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Small black clouds thus appearing in a clear sky, in hot climates portend storms, and warn seamen to hand their sails. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- We go forward prepared to repair it after we have stormed the pass. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- It stormed all that day. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The enemy was sung and stormed down, his psalm quelled. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The grim-looking prison of the Bastille was stormed by the people of Paris, and the insurrection spread rapidly throughout France. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He seemed a galvanizing apparatus, too, charged with a grim mechanical substitute for the tender young imaginations that were to be stormed away. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- The Carthaginians suffered horribly from famine; but they held out until the town was stormed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It started from Venice (1202), captured Zara, encamped at Constantinople (1203), and finally, in 1204, stormed the city. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He joined them only to assist at the storming of Torquilstone. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The storming parties were assailed with cannon, with musketry, with pistols. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Of course we will, said Maurice, who had joined the pair; our defence here, even with our small numbers, is quite strong enough to stand one storming. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- And not only raining, but storming. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Yates is storming away in the dining-room. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Pyramids of skulls were his particular architectural fancy; after the storming of Ispahan he made one of 70,000. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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