storm
/stoɹm/ noun A2- Any disturbed state of the atmosphere causing destructive or unpleasant weather, especially one affecting the earth's surface involving strong winds (leading to high waves at sea) and usually lightning, thunder, and precipitation. · Near-synonyms: cyclone (broad sense), tempest· The boat was torn to pieces in the storm, and nobody survived.
- A heavy fall of precipitation (hail, rain, or snow) or bout of lightning and thunder without strong winds; a hail storm, rainstorm, snowstorm, or thunderstorm.
- Synonym of cyclone (“a weather phenomenon consisting of a system of winds rotating around a centre of low atmospheric pressure”).
- A disturbed state of the atmosphere between a severe or strong gale and a hurricane on the modern Beaufort scale, with a wind speed of between 89 and 102 kilometres per hour (55–63 miles per hour; 10 on the scale, known as a "storm" or whole gale), or of between 103 and 117 kilometres per hour (64–72 miles per hour; 11 on the scale, known as a "violent storm").
- A heavy expulsion or fall of things (as blows, objects which are thrown, etc.). · a storm of bullets
- A violent agitation of human society; a domestic, civil, or political commotion. · The proposed reforms have led to a political storm.
- A violent commotion or outbreak of sounds, speech, thoughts, etc.; also, an outpouring of emotion. · a storm of protest
- Chiefly with a qualifying word: a violent attack of disease, pain, physiological reactions, symptoms, etc.; a paroxysm. · asthmatic storm cytokine storm
Plural storms
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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But excessive grief is like a storm at sea, where the frail bark is tossed from the depths to the top of the wave.
“Over head and ears; but, unless I am much mistaken, there will be a storm in that quarter.”
The rustle of the poplar leaves about the house worried her, it sounded so like pattering raindrops, and the full, faraway roar of the gulf, to which she listened delightedly at other times, loving its strange, sonorous, haunting rhythm, now seemed like a prophecy of storm and disaster to a small maiden who particularly wanted a fine day.
The clerks in the office jumped about like sailors during a storm.
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