Usually means: Disturbance in atmospheric conditions, severe.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. storm: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. storm, storm: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. storm: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. storm: Collins English Dictionary
  5. storm: Vocabulary.com
  6. Storm, storm: Wordnik
  7. -storm, storm: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Storm, The Storm, storm: Wiktionary
  9. storm: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. storm: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. storm: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. storm: Dictionary.com
  13. storm (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. storm: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Storm: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. storm: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. storm: Rhymezone
  19. storm, storm (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. storm: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. STORM: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. Storm: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  23. storm: Free Dictionary
  24. storm: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. Storm, storm: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  26. storm: Dictionary/thesaurus
  27. storm: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The storm, storm: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. storm: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. The storm, storm: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. The storm, storm: Medical dictionary
  3. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  3. baby names list (No longer online)
  4. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. STORM: Acronym Finder
  6. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  7. storm: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Weather Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. storm: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Storm (Outlawz), storm, the storm: Urban Dictionary

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  3. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  4. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  5. Storm: Science In Your Watershed: Hydrologic Definitions

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  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; a tempest.
noun:  (by extension) 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.
noun:  (by extension) Synonym of cyclone (“a weather phenomenon consisting of a system of winds rotating around a centre of low atmospheric pressure”)
noun:  (by extension, Canada, Scotland, US, dated) A period of frosty and/or snowy weather.
noun:  (meteorology) 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").
noun:  (figurative)
noun:  A heavy expulsion or fall of things (as blows, objects which are thrown, etc.).
noun:  A violent agitation of human society; a domestic, civil, or political commotion.
noun:  A violent commotion or outbreak of sounds, speech, thoughts, etc.; also, an outpouring of emotion.
noun:  (pathology) Chiefly with a qualifying word: a violent attack of diease, pain, physiological reactions, symptoms, etc.; a paroxysm.
verb:  (impersonal, chiefly US) Preceded by the dummy subject it: to have strong winds and usually lightning and thunder, and/or hail, rain, or snow.
verb:  (transitive)
verb:  To make (someone or something) stormy; to agitate (someone or something) violently.
verb:  (figurative)
verb:  To disturb or trouble (someone).
verb:  To use (harsh language).
verb:  (chiefly military) To violently assault (a fortified position or stronghold, a building, etc.) with the aim of gaining control of it.
verb:  (figurative, often poetic) To assault or gain control or power over (someone's heart, mind, etc.).
verb:  (by extension, especially in command economies) To catch up (on production output) by making frenzied or herculean efforts.
verb:  (British, dialectal, agriculture) To protect (seed-hay) from stormy weather by putting sheaves of them into small stacks.
verb:  (intransitive)
verb:  Of the weather: to be violent, with strong winds and usually lightning and thunder, and/or hail, rain, or snow.
verb:  To be exposed to harsh (especially cold) weather.
verb:  To move noisily and quickly like a storm (noun sense 1), usually in a state of anger or uproar.
verb:  (by extension, chiefly military) To move quickly in the course of an assault on a fortified position or stronghold, a building, etc.
verb:  To be in a violent temper; to use harsh language; to fume, to rage.
noun:  (military) A violent assault on a fortified position or stronghold.
noun:  A unisex given name
noun:  (Canada, US, chiefly in the plural) Ellipsis of storm window (“a second window (originally detachable) attached on the exterior side of a window in climates with harsh winters, to add an insulating layer of still air between the outside and inside”). [A second window (originally detachable) attached on the exterior side of a window in climates with harsh winters, to add an insulating layer of still air between the outside and inside.]

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