[
US
/ˈstɔɹm/
]
[ UK /stˈɔːm/ ]
[ UK /stˈɔːm/ ]
VERB
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take by force
Storm the fort - attack by storm; attack suddenly
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blow hard
It was storming all night - behave violently, as if in state of a great anger
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rain, hail, or snow hard and be very windy, often with thunder or lightning
If it storms, we'll need shelter
NOUN
- a direct and violent assault on a stronghold
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a violent commotion or disturbance
it was only a tempest in a teapot
the storms that had characterized their relationship had died away - a violent weather condition with winds 64-72 knots (11 on the Beaufort scale) and precipitation and thunder and lightning
How To Use storm In A Sentence
- As he ran past, the arquebusier shouted something about Susanoo, the kami of storms, and how he was punishing them for their arrogance. Blood Ninja II
- The storm was cloaked like a hidden monster behind a stratiform cloud veil (nimbostratus) with a little fractus in the foreground.
- A Scottish moor long bore the reputation for being haunted by a phantom flock of sheep, which were always heard "baaing" plaintively before a big storm. Animal Ghosts Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter
- For winemakers in the Rhone, 2002 was a disastrous year, with violent storms and huge rainfall during the harvest.
- All that day and the next we crept away from the northern perimeter of the storm.
- What of it if Winter has another snow-storm or two up his sleeve?I take my staff and fare forth to greet Spring with three dogs at my heels.
- The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear. Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The snowstorm will last till tomorrow afternoon.
- I believe it has its own atmosphere because it is built in what you call a caldera, but I may have picked that information up from like a Syfy TV movie about the Coming Global Superstorm, or invented it in my own mind. Television Without Pity
- Asked about parents who choose not to vaccinate their children against HPV, the virologist Nathan Wolfe, author of the new book "The Viral Storm," told me: "Basically the decision to not vaccinate risks not only cancer for their kids but cancer for anyone their kids have sex with. The New Prudery
