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storm

UK/stɔːm/ US/stɔɹm/ common uk us
noun (3) verb (5)

noun

1.

a violent weather condition with winds 64-72 knots (11 on the Beaufort scale) and precipitation and thunder and lightening

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2.

a violent commotion or disturbance

  • “the storms that had characterized their relationship had died away”
  • “it was only a tempest in a teapot”
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3.

verb

1.

behave violently, as if in state of a great anger

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2.

take by force

  • “Storm the fort”
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3.

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

  • “If it storms, we”
4.

blow hard

  • “It was storming all night”
5.

attack by storm; attack suddenly

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Origin

The verb is derived from Middle English stormen (“of the wind: to blow violently; to cause to roll or toss”), from storm (noun) (see etymology 1) + -en (suffix forming the infinitives of verbs). Compare Middle English sturmen (“to attack (someone) with great force”), from Old English styrman (“to rage, storm; to make a great noise, cry aloud, shout, storm”), from Proto-West Germanic *sturmijan (“to storm”), from Proto-Germanic *sturmijaną (“to storm”), from *sturmaz (“a storm”) (see etymology 1) + *-janą (suffix forming causatives from strong verbs, with a sense of ‘to cause to do [the action of the verb]’). The Middle English word did not survive into modern English. The noun is derived from verb etymology 2, verb sense 2.3 (“to violently assault (a fortified position or stronghold, a building, etc.) with the aim of gaining control of it”). Cognates * Dutch stormen (“to bluster, storm”) * German stürmen (“to rage, storm; to assault, attack”) * Icelandic storma (“to storm”) * Low German stormen (“to storm”) * Swedish storma (“to bluster, storm”)

Phrases

  • any port in a storm
  • ark storm
  • brain storm
  • calm before the storm
  • cook up a storm
  • Desert Storm syndrome
  • dust storm
  • eye of the storm
  • storm in
  • storm off
  • storm out
  • storm out of the blocks

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