noun. An atmospheric disturbance manifested in strong winds accompanied by rain, snow, or other precipitation and often by thunder and lightning.

noun. A wind with a speed from 48 to 55 knots (55 to 63 miles per hour; 89 to 102 kilometers per hour), according to the Beaufort scale.

noun. A heavy shower of objects, such as bullets or missiles.

noun. A strong or violent outburst, as of emotion or excitement.

noun. A violent disturbance or upheaval, as in political, social, or domestic affairs.

noun. A violent, sudden attack on a fortified place.

noun. A storm window.

intransitive verb. To blow with strong winds and usually produce copious rain, snow, or other precipitation.

intransitive verb. To behave or shout angrily; rant and rage.

intransitive verb. To move or rush tumultuously, violently, or angrily.

intransitive verb. To assault or capture suddenly: synonym: attack.

intransitive verb. To travel around (a place) vigorously in an attempt to gain support.

intransitive verb. To shout angrily.

idiom. (take by storm) To captivate completely.

To blow with great force; also, to rain, hail, snow, or sleet, especially with violence: used impersonally: as, it storms.

To fume; scold; rage; be in a violent agitation or passion; raise a tempest.

To move with violence; rush angrily or impetuously: as, he stormed about the room.

To attack and attempt to take possession of, as by scaling walls or forcing gates or breaches; assault: as, to storm a fortified town: often used figuratively.

noun. A disturbance of the normal condition of the atmosphere, manifesting itself by winds of unusual direction or force, or by rain (often with lightning and thunder), snow, or hail, or by several of these phenomena in combination; a tempest: also used with reference to precipitation only, as in hail-storm, thunder-storm, snow-storm.

noun. Specifically— Technically, in nautical use, a wind of force 11 on the Beaufort scale, being that in which a man-of-war could carry only storm-staysails.

noun. A fall of snow.

noun. A prolonged frost.

noun. Hence, figuratively A tempestuous flight or descent of objects fiercely hurled: as, a storm of missiles.

noun. A violent disturbance or agitation of human society; a civil, political, or domestic commotion; a tumult; a clamor.

noun. A destructive or overwhelming calamity; extremity of adversity or disaster.

noun. A vehement or passionate outbreak, as of some emotion, or of the expression of such emotion: as, a storm of indignation; a storm of applause; a storm of hisses.

noun. Milit., a violent assault on a fortified place or strong position; a dashing attempt by troops to capture a fortified place, as by scaling the walls or forcing the gates.

noun. See the adjectives.

noun. To captivate or carry away by surprising or delighting: as, the new singer has taken the town by storm.

noun. Synonyms Tempest, etc. See wind.

intransitive verb. To raise a tempest.

intransitive verb. To blow with violence; also, to rain, hail, snow, or the like, usually in a violent manner, or with high wind; -- used impersonally.

intransitive verb. To rage; to be in a violent passion; to fume.

transitive verb. To assault; to attack, and attempt to take, by scaling walls, forcing gates, breaches, or the like.

noun. A violent disturbance of the atmosphere, attended by wind, rain, snow, hail, or thunder and lightning; hence, often, a heavy fall of rain, snow, or hail, whether accompanied with wind or not.

noun. A violent agitation of human society; a civil, political, or domestic commotion; sedition, insurrection, or war; violent outbreak; clamor; tumult.

noun. A heavy shower or fall, any adverse outburst of tumultuous force; violence.

noun. A violent assault on a fortified place; a furious attempt of troops to enter and take a fortified place by scaling the walls, forcing the gates, or the like.

noun. a storm characterized by a central area of high atmospheric pressure, and having a system of winds blowing spirally outward in a direction contrary to that cyclonic storms. It is attended by low temperature, dry air, infrequent precipitation, and often by clear sky. Called also high-area storm, anticyclone. When attended by high winds, snow, and freezing temperatures such storms have various local names, as blizzard, wet norther, purga, buran, etc.

noun. A cyclone, or low-area storm. See Cyclone, above.

noun. See under Magnetic.

noun. a designation given to the literary agitation and revolutionary development in Germany under the lead of Goethe and Schiller in the latter part of the 18th century.

noun. the center of the area covered by a storm, especially by a storm of large extent.

noun. an extra outside door to prevent the entrance of wind, cold, rain, etc.; -- usually removed in summer.

noun. the course over which a storm, or storm center, travels.

noun. See Stormy petrel, under Petrel.

noun. any one of a number of strong, heavy sails that are bent and set in stormy weather.

noun. See the Note under Cloud.

verb. To move quickly and noisily like a storm, usually in a state of uproar or anger.

verb. To assault (a stronghold or fortification) with military forces.

"He tries to avoid the term "storm chaser" but has come to accept the term as an inevitability."

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