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▸ 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.]
Similar:
tempest,
violent storm,
ramp,
rage,
force,
surprise,
hurricane,
thunderstorm,
rainstorm,
tornado,
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