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UK
/tˈɛmpəst/
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[ US /ˈtɛmpəst/ ]
[ US /ˈtɛmpəst/ ]
NOUN
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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 -
(literary) a violent wind
a tempest swept over the island
How To Use tempest In A Sentence
- Running parallel to this tempestuous relationship is the whirlwind romance between weathergirl Hero, played by Billie Piper, and sports presenter Claude.
- For years, the couple's tempestuous relationship made the headlines.
- News of the unusual discovery is stirring up a tempest among scientists, who are studying the storm to find out how it formed.
- There wasn't any thunder or lightning, just rain, but it was quite a tempest nonetheless.
- With Maureen and Jane it seemed improbable, but every now and then I caught myself wondering if the tempestuous Alessandra felt even a slight tendresse. Why Women Still Don't Get It
- Defy the tempest & the storm deride is not in the original nor is it good. ποθος [19] is hardly fierce desire — & all such expressions of ram-cat raptures are bad. by the by she a dark lanthern might have deprived us of this poem. your storm is very good — zounds I sweat at the bare idea of the Letter 138
- And shipmen see this and beware that they be not overset unwarily with tempest and with storms. A WMAM too tired for catchy titles
- I felt that Marjorie might overdo it: also that Conky, who loved the sound of his voice, might be tempted to soothe the old man with intempestive gusts of song. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, April 12, 1916
- It will be a difficult task as the ship has become overloaded, capricious and the ocean is tempestuous.
- Spiritus quoque aeris et mali genii aliquando se tempestatibus ingerunt, et menti humanae se latenter insinuant, eamque vexant, exagitant, et ut fluctus marini, humanum corpus ventis agitatur. Anatomy of Melancholy