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Storm

noun

A violent weather condition with winds 64-72 knots (11 on the Beaufort scale) and precipitation and thunder and lightning. Synonym: violent storm.

A violent commotion or disturbance. Synonym: tempest. "It was only a tempest in a teapot"

A direct and violent assault on a stronghold.

verb

(past & past part. stormed; pres. part. storming)

Behave violently, as if in state of a great anger. Synonyms: rage, ramp.

Take by force. Synonym: force.

Rain, hail, or snow hard and be very windy, often with thunder or lightning.

Blow hard.

Attack by storm; attack suddenly. Synonym: surprise.

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"Storm" Quotes from Famous Books

... had evidently been crying. The girl's eyes and nose were red and the boy at intervals gave a dry sob as though he had been through a storm of weeping and could with difficulty stop. They clung to each other as they would had they been drowning. The woman pushed them into the room. The children's clothes were the worse for wear, and ...

— Mary Louise and Josie O'Gorman • Emma Speed Sampson

... night prove clear, and the wind shift to the desired point. Stanhope remonstrated against this haste, as his nautical experience led him to apprehend evil from it; the clouds which for some time had boded an approaching storm, indeed, seemed passing away; but dark masses still lingered in the horizon, and the turbid waters of the bay assumed that calm and sullen aspect, which so often precedes a tempest. But La Tour was obstinate in his resolution; and, as it was important that the vessels should sail ...

— The Rivals of Acadia - An Old Story of the New World • Harriet Vaughan Cheney

... Mesgrigny, another of his Majesty's squires. In compliance with his Majesty's wishes, M. de Mesgrigny performed the duties of M. de Saint-Aignan, who withdrew to the rear of the army to wait till the storm should be past. At the end of a few days his disgrace was ended, and all who knew him rejoiced; for the Baron de Saint-Aignan was beloved by all for ...

— The Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte • Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton

... he was wholly weary of them; and the thought of the absolute want of reason in the causeless jealousy, and the misery that these little bickerings made of his life, exasperated him beyond measure. The dinner proceeded in silence, and every slight remark was a presage of storm. Hubert hoped the girl would say nothing until the servant left the room, and with that view he never spoke a word except to ask the ladies what they would take to eat. These tactics might have succeeded if Mrs. Bentley had not unfortunately said that next week ...

— Vain Fortune • George Moore

... name you, we reverent are breathless, weak with pain and old loss, and exile and despair— our hearts break but to speak your name, Oknaleos— and may we but call you in the feverish wrack of our storm-strewn beach, Eretmeos, and our hurt is quiet and our hearts tamed, as the sea may yet be tamed, and we vow to float great ships, named for each hero, and oar-blades, cut out of mountain-trees as such men might have shaped: Eretmeos ...

— Hymen • Hilda Doolittle

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