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storm Definition

storm (stôrm)

noun

  1. an atmospheric disturbance characterized by a strong wind, usually accompanied by rain, snow, sleet, or hail, and, often, thunder and lightning
  2. any heavy fall of snow, rain, or hail
  3. anything resembling a storm; specif.,
    1. a heavy shower or volley of things a storm of bullets
    2. a strong outburst of emotion, passion, excitement, etc.
    3. a strong disturbance or upheaval of a political or social nature
  4. a sudden, strong attack on a fortified place: now mainly in the phrase take by storm, to conquer, overwhelm, or win over suddenly and forcefully
  5. Meteorol. a wind whose speed is 64 to 72 miles per hour

Etymology: ME < OE, akin to Ger sturm < IE base *(s)twer-, to whirl, move or turn quickly > stir, L turbare, to agitate

intransitive verb

  1. to be stormy; blow violently, rain, snow, etc.
  2. to be violently angry; rage; rant
  3. to rush or move violently and tumultuously to storm into a room

transitive verb

  1. to attack or direct something at (someone) in a vigorous or angry outburst to storm a speaker with questions
  2. to capture or attempt to capture (a fortified place) with a sudden, strong attack

storm Synonyms

storm

n.

  1. A violent disturbance of the elements

    tempest, downpour, cloudburst, disturbance, waterspout, blizzard, snowstorm, purga, squall, hurricane, cyclone, tornado, twister, gust, blast, gale, blow, monsoon; see also rain 1, wind 1.

  2. An outbreak suggestive of violent weather

    anger, agitation, annoyance, commotion, turmoil, violence, perturbation, racket, temper, hubbub, rage, fury, passion, hysteria.

    Antonyms peace*, harmony*, quiet.

storm Synonyms

storm

v.

  1. To be stormy

    blow violently, howl, blow a gale, roar, set in, squall, pour, drizzle, drop, rain, mizzle, spit, lay the dust, patter, rain cats and dogs*, come down in bucketfuls*, breathe fire and fury*, rain pitchforks and hammer-handles*; see also snow.

  2. To make a violent attack

    attack, charge, rush, assail; see attack 1. See syn. study at attack.

storm Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • calm: He can walk on water, calm the storms ( natural ones!

Noun used with modifier

  • thunder: Had a great thunder storm here on Wednesday night.
  • meteor: November 13 th 2001: Leonids 2001 - Another chance to see a meteor storm.
  • lightning: By this time the weather was deteriorating rapidly and a lightning storm rolling up the valley.
  • hail: Sunday 7th March was a mixed-up day - sunny one moment, a hail storm the next with drizzle now and then for compromise.
  • freak: Denial of nature goes hand-in-hand with terms like " freak storm " .
  • dust: Is it a herd of elephants kicking up a dust storm, or a giant caldron of maize being cooked?

Adjective modifier

  • geomagnetic: This approach results in the identification of some ten to twenty historical geomagnetic storms.
  • tropical: Then you wonder why there's another tropical storm approaching the Florida Keys?
  • violent: A violent storm suddenly broke out, driving the approaching ships back across the Channel.
  • fierce: August 7 th 1924 During a fierce thunder storm a house at Pentlow was struck by lighting.
  • severe: A severe storm hit the country in the early hours of Monday 30th October.

Modifies a noun

  • surge: This means that there is a third factor that determines the importance of the storm surge - namely the morphology of the shingle beach.
  • trooper: We do not need secret police, uniformed storm troopers or identity cards to deal with foreign fundamentalist fanatics.
  • petrel: Storm petrels are perhaps the most remarkable as, despite their tiny size they take over 60 days to fledge!
  • flap: The jacket has a single storm flap, where a double storm flap would offer better protection in a heavy downpour.
  • cloud: Will and I then set off to brave the Fierce Ladies, storm clouds gathered and a deluge poured down upon the mountains.
  • brewing: It suddenly fades out, wind blows, a storm brewing?

Preposition: in

  • teacup: In the nineteen thirties there was many a storm in a teacup at the famous Savoy " Tango Teas " .
  • tea-cup: This is classic ' storm in a tea-cup ' stuff and of little real significance to the overall debate.
storm Quotes

As you walk through the storm, Hold your head up high, And don't be afraid of the dark, At the end of the storm, Is a golden sky, And the sweet silver song of the lark, Walk on through the wind, Walk on through the rain, Though your dreams be tossed and blown. Walk on, walk on, With hope in your hearts, And you'll never walk alone, You'll never walk alone.

—Hammerstein, Oscar, II

Whare sits our sulky sullen dame, Gathering her brows like gathering storm, Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.

—Burns, Robert

The artist should fear to become the slave of detail. He should strive to express his thought and not the surface of it.What avails a storm cloud accurate in form and colour if the storm is not therein?

—Ryder, Albert Pinkham

The storm without might rair and rustle, Tam did na mind the storm a whistle.

—Burns, Robert

Even so we in like manner, as soon as we were born, began to draw to our end, and had no sign of virtue to shew; but were consumed in our own wickedness. For the hope of the ungodly is like dust that is blown away with the wind; like a thin froth that is driven away with the storm; like as the smoke which is dispersed here and there with a tempest, and passeth away as the remembrance of a guest that tarrieth but a day.

—Bible (Apocrypha)

And they are gone: aye, ages long ago These lovers fled away into the storm.

—Keats,John

When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining togetheras one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.

—Muir,John

O rose, thou art sick! The invisible worm That flies in the night, In the howling storm, Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy, And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy.

—Blake,William

   And, pleased th'Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirl-wind, and directs the storm.

—Addison,Joseph

God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm.

—Cowper,William

Sturm und Drang. Storm and stress.

—Kaufmann, Christoph

The long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run, we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long past the ocean is flat again.

—Keynes (of Tilton),John Maynard, 1st Baron

  Jesu, lover of my soul, Let me to thy bosom fly, While the nearer waters roll, While the tempest still is high; Hide me,O my Saviour, hide, Till the storm of life is past; Safe into the haven guide, O receive my soul at last.

—Wesley, Charles

Who hath desired the Sea?öthe sight of salt water unboundedö The heave and the halt and the hurl and the crash of the comber wind-hounded? The sleek-barrelled swell before storm, grey, foamless, enormous, and growingö Stark calm on the lap of the Line or the crazy-eyed Hurricane blowing.

—Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard

O tell of his might,O sing of his grace, Whose robe is the light, whose canopy space. His chariots of wrath the deep thunder-clouds form, And dark is his path on the wings of the storm.

—Grant, Sir Robert