Meaning of storm | Babel Free

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1. A unisex given name
2. A violent assault on a fortified position or stronghold.
3. Any disturbed state of the atmosphere causing destructive or unpleasant weather, especially one affecting the earth's surface involving strong winds (leading to high waves at sea) and usually lightning, thunder, and precipitation.
4. A unisex given name.
5. 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.
   broadly
6. To captivate completely: a new play that took New York City by storm.
7. thunderstorm, lightning storm
8. Synonym of cyclone (“a weather phenomenon consisting of a system of winds rotating around a centre of low atmospheric pressure”).
   broadly
9. A concentrated outpouring, as of missiles, words, or blows:barrage, bombardment, burst, cannonade, fusillade, hail, salvo, shower, volley.
10. A period of frosty and/or snowy weather.
    Canada, Scotland, US, broadly, dated
11. To set upon with violent force:aggress, assail, assault, attack, beset, fall on (or upon), go at, have at, sail into, strike.
12. stormagtig كالعاصِفَه، بِشِدَّه، بِانفِعالٍ شَديد бурно tempestuosamente bouřlivě stürmisch stormfuldt; ophidset με μανία tormentosamente tormiselt, raevukalt بطور طوفاني myrkyisesti orageusement בִּסעָרָה तूफानी ढंग से, प्रचण्डता से, संकटपूर्णता से olujno viharosan dengan marah á ofsafenginn hátt tempestosamente 激しく 격렬하게, 난폭하게 audringai vētraini dengan perasaan marah yang meluap-luap onbesuisdstormfullt, hissig, heftig burzliwie په طوفانی توګه tempestuosamente furtunos бурно búrlivo viharno ...
13. 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").
14. stormagtigheid عاصِفِيَّه ярост tempestade výskyt bouřek; bouřlivost das Ungestüm ophidsethed θυελλώδης κατάσταση tempestuosidad tormisus, raevukus طوفاني myrskyisyys caractère orageux סערה तुफानी koji je buran, olujan viharosság kemarahan stormasemi, ofsi tempestosità 激しさ 격렬함, 난폭함 audringumas vētrainība kemarahan yang amat sangat onbesuisdheid uvær; heftighet burzliwość طوفانی tempestade caracter furtunos буря výskyt búrok; búrlivosť viharnost olujnost stormighet ความโกรธจัด fırtınalılık, şi...
15. A heavy expulsion or fall of things (as blows, objects which are thrown, etc.).
    figuratively
16. prevented by storms from continuing with a voyage, receiving regular supplies etc. stormbound ships. deur storms verhoed مَمنوع من السَّفرْ بسبب العاصِفَه възпрепятстван от буря retido pela tempestade zadržený bouří vom Sturm aufgehalten stormhindret αποκλεισμένος από κακοκαιρία inmovilizado por el mal tiempo tormivangis طوفان زده myrskyn eristämä bloqué par la tempête מְרוּתָק בְּשֶל סְעָרָה झंझावरूद्ध koji ne može nastaviti putovanje ili napustiti luku zbog oluje viharba keveredett terhamba...
    etc
17. A violent agitation of human society; a domestic, civil, or political commotion.
    figuratively
18. a soldier specially trained for violent and dangerous attacks. stormtroep جُنْدي من جُنود فِرْقَة العاصِفَه للهجوم الخَطِر щурмовак tropa de assalto příslušník úderného oddílu die Sturmtruppe stormtropssoldat καταδρομέας soldado de las tropas de asalto ründerühmlane آشوبگر iskujoukkojen jäsen soldat des troupes d'assaut פְּלוּגַת סַעַר आक्रमण के लिए विशेष रूप से प्रशिक्षित सैनिक jurišnik rohamosztagos pasukan tempur stormsveitarmaður (soldato delle truppe d'assalto) 突撃隊員 돌격대원 smogikas triecie...
19. A violent commotion or outbreak of sounds, speech, thoughts, etc.; also, an outpouring of emotion.
    figuratively
20. a fuss made over an unimportant matter. storm in 'n glas water عاصِفَه في فنْجان буря в чаша вода uma tempestade em um copo de água bouře ve sklenici vody Sturm im Wasserglas en storm i et glas vand πολύ κακό για το τίποτα una tempestad en un vaso de agua torm veeklaasis جار و جنجال سر موضوعي بي اهميت myrsky vesilasissa une tempête dans un verre d'eau סְעָרָה בְּכוֹס מָיִם बात का बतंगड़ bura u čaši vode sok hűhó semmiért ribut karena hal sepele stormur í tebolla/vatnsglasi, ys og þys útaf eng...
21. Chiefly with a qualifying word: a violent attack of diease, pain, physiological reactions, symptoms, etc.; a paroxysm.
    figuratively
22. to capture by means of a sudden violent attack. The invaders took the city by storm. skielik aanval يَسْتَوْلي بالقُوَّه على مَدينَه щурмувам tomar de assalto vzít útokem im Sturm erobern tage med storm καταλαμβάνω με έφοδο tomar por asalto, cautivar tormijooksuga vallutama با حمله گرفتن vallata nopeasti prendre d'assaut לִכבּוֹש בִּסעָרָה जीत लेना osvojiti na juriš rohammal vesz be merebut dengan kekerasan taka með áhlaupi (prendere d'assalto) 急襲して取る 강습하다 paimti šturmu ieņemt triecienā menaw...
23. 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”).
    Canada, US, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, in-plural
24. tormenta; intensificación repentina de síntomas de una enfermedad.

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Examples

“Near-synonyms: cyclone (broad sense), tempest”

“The boat was torn to pieces in the storm, and nobody survived.”

“Thou toyl'ſt in perrill, and the vvindie ſtorme, / Doth topſide-turuey toſſe thee as thou floteſt.”

“But ſeeing that there the murdring Enemie, / Peſle-meſle, purſued them like a ſtorme of hayle, / They gan retyre vvhere Iuba vvas encampt; […]”

“[W]e heare this fearefull tempeſt ſing, / Yet ſeeke no ſhelter to auoid the ſtorme: / We ſee the vvind ſit ſore vpon our ſailes.”

“And vvhat at firſt vvas call'd a guſt, the ſame / Hath novv a ſtormes, anon a tempeſts name.”

“[W]hy vvhat's the matter? / That you haue ſuch a Februarie face, / So full of froſt, of ſtorme, and clovvdineſſe.”

“Here's neither buſh, nor ſhrub to beare off any vveather at all: and another Storme brevving, I heare it ſing ith' vvinde: yond ſame blacke cloud, yond huge one, lookes like a foule bumbard that vvould ſhed his licquor: […]”

“[D]uring this late tuffon, lightning vvas ſeen to fall and hang like fire, ſometimes to skip to and fro about the Yards and Tackling of our Ships. […] [S]ome call Hermes fire; Saint Elmo others; […] vvithall believing, that vvhen tvvo are ſeen, they foretel Halcyon vveather and ſafety; if one, it imports danger; but three threaten ſtorms and ſhipvvrack. Sed non ego credulus illis [But I am not credulous of them], vvell-knovving that theſe Meteors are no other than natural Exhalations.”

“When storm is on the heights, and right and left / Suck'd from the dark heart of the long hills roll / The torrents, dash'd to the vale: and yet her will / Bred will in me to overcome it or fall.”

“O thou that after toil and storm / Mayst seem to have reach'd a purer air, / Whose faith has centre everywhere, / Nor cares to fix itself to form, […]”

“Phoenix and Lubbock are both caught in severe drought, and it is going to get much worse. We may see many such [dust] storms in the decades ahead, along with species extinctions, radical disturbance of ecosystems, and intensified social conflict over land and water. Welcome to the Anthropocene, the epoch when humans have become a major geological and climatic force.”

“a storm of bullets”

“Adrastus firſt aduanſt his creſt aloft, / And boldly gan a ſtrong ſcalado reare, / And through the falling ſtorme did vpward clime / Of ſtones, dartes, arrovves, fire, pitch and lime: […]”

“[F]or this day will pour down, / If I conjecture aught, no drizling ſhowr, / But ratling ſtorm of Arrows barbd with fire.”

“Then rose / His mace, and with a storm of blows / The mortal and the demon close.”

“I will not cease to grasp the hope I hold / Of saintdom, and to clamour, mourn and sob, / Battering the gates of heaven with storms of prayer, / Have mercy, Lord, and take away my sin.”

“"Sorry about the bullet storm," Corbin said as they approached her living quarters. "I'm a bit of a bet-hedger these days."”

“The proposed reforms have led to a political storm.”

“Savv you no more? Mark'd you not hovv hir ſiſter / Began to ſcold, and raiſe vp ſuch a ſtorme, / That moral eares might hardly indure the din.”

“VVhiles I in Ireland nouriſh a mightie Band, / I vvill ſtirre vp in England ſome black Storme, / Shall blovve then thouſand Soules to Heauen, or Hell: […]”

“[When] private men begin once to presume to give law to themselves, and to right their own wrongs, no man can foresee the dangers and inconveniences that may arise and multiply thereupon. It may cause sudden storms in Court, to the disturbance of his Majesty, and unsafety of his person.”

“Bold may I vvax, exceeding bold / My high Commiſſion to perform, / Nor ſhrink thy harſheſt Truths t' unfold, / But more than meet the gathering Storm.”

“But they were all speedily thrown into the shade by two younger Whigs [Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax and John Somers, 1st Baron Somers], who, on this great day, took their seats for the first time, who soon rose to the highest honors of the state, who weathered together the fiercest storms of faction, […]”

“Pa told me, only yesterday morning, (and dreadfully unhappy he is) that he couldn't weather the storm. […] I should like to make out how Pa is to weather the storm. I declare if I was Pa, I'd run away!”

“a storm of protest”

“[W]as there euer any thing proiected, that fauoured any vvay of nevvneſſe or renevving, but the ſame endured many a ſtorme of gaine-ſaying, or oppoſition?”

“With storms of whistlings then his flock he drave / Up to the mountains; […]”

“The Proſe is Fuſtian, and the Numbers lame. All Noiſe, and empty Pomp, a ſtorm of vvords, / Lab'ring vvith ſound, that little Sence affords.”

“[H]ow much more they would have been alarmed had they heard him actually throwing out such a storm of eloquence?”

“Theſe, and a thouſand mixt emotions more, / From ever-changing vievvs of good and ill, / Form'd infinitely various, vex the mind / VVith endleſs ſtorm: […]”

“The ſtrings are ſvvept vvith ſuch a povv'r, ſo loud, / The ſtorm of muſic ſhakes th' aſtoniſh'd crovvd.”

“[Y]et a moment, and once more / The trumpet, and again: at which the storm / Of galloping hoofs bare on the ridge of spears / And riders front to front, until they closed / In the middle with the crash of shivering points, / And thunder.”

“He betrayed, however, no sign of fear or of shame, and faced the storm of invective which burst upon him for bar, bench, and witness box, with the insolence of despair.”

“Sir Aylmer reddening from the storm within, / Then broke all bonds of courtesy, […]”

“When his playfellows ran after the dogs in their fanatic thirst, he ran too, but with a storm of other feelings.”

“asthmatic storm    cytokine storm”

“He ſvvet and ſvvet againe vvith ſuch exceſſiue ſvvoonings, as not only himſelfe, but likevviſe all the beholders, did verily deeme, that his life vvas ending. This ſtorme and miſhappe endured about ſome tvvo hovvres, after vvhich hee remayned not cured as his Maſter, but ſo vveary and indiſpoſed, as hee vvas not able to ſtand.”

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