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Storm

noun

A violent weather condition with winds 64-72 knots (11 on the Beaufort scale) and precipitation and thunder and lightning. Synonym: violent storm.

A violent commotion or disturbance. Synonym: tempest. "It was only a tempest in a teapot"

A direct and violent assault on a stronghold.

verb

(past & past part. stormed; pres. part. storming)

Behave violently, as if in state of a great anger. Synonyms: rage, ramp.

Take by force. Synonym: force.

Rain, hail, or snow hard and be very windy, often with thunder or lightning.

Blow hard.

Attack by storm; attack suddenly. Synonym: surprise.

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"Storm" Quotes from Famous Books

... until low growls of thunder began to salute his ear, that he looked up and found the silver edge fast mounting to the zenith and the curtain drawing its folds all around over the clear blue sky. His next look was earthward, for a shelter; for at the rate that chariot of the storm was travelling he knew he had not many minutes to seek one before the storm would be upon him. Happily a blacksmith's shop, that he would certainly have passed without seeing it, stood at a little distance; and Winthrop thankfully made for it. ...

— Hills of the Shatemuc • Susan Warner

... weary, and disappointed. The magistrate was from home; he had waited for him as long as he dared; but at length, both because of his wife's unpleasant position, and the danger to himself if he longer delayed his journey across the mountain, seeing it threatened a storm, and there was no moon, he set out. That he too was relieved to find no Angus there, he did not attempt to conceal. The next day he went to see him, and told him that, to please Gibbie, he had consented to say nothing more about the affair. Angus ...

— Sir Gibbie • George MacDonald

... and the wrinkled little Bat once went on a journey together. When it came towards night a storm arose, and the two companions sought everywhere for a shelter. But all the birds were sound asleep in their nests and the animals in their holes and dens. They could find no welcome anywhere until they came ...

— The Curious Book of Birds • Abbie Farwell Brown

... manhood, Be it yellow or black or white; And poverty and justice and sorrow, The humble, and simple and strong Shall sing with the sons of morning And daughters of even-song: Black mother of the iron hills that ward the blazing sea, Wild spirit of a storm-swept soul, a-struggling to be free, Where 'neath the bloody finger-marks thy riven bosom quakes, Thicken the thunders of God's Voice and lo! a ...

— Darkwater - Voices From Within The Veil • W. E. B. Du Bois

... an excess of work injurious to the health, generally arises from the fact that he has not at other times made use of the requisite attention to the necessary industry, and then attempts suddenly and as by a forced march to storm his way to his end. The result of such over-exertion is naturally entire prostration. The pupil is therefore to be accustomed to a generally uniform industry, which may extend itself at regular intervals without his thereby overstraining himself. ...

— Pedagogics as a System • Karl Rosenkranz

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