Meaning of storm in English

storm

noun

/stɔːm/ us

/stɔːrm/

storm noun (VIOLENT WEATHER)

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an extreme weather condition with very strong wind, heavy rain, and often thunder and lightning:

A lot of trees were blown down in the recent storms.

They're still cleaning up the storm damage.

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A lot of trees came down in the storm.
We took cover from the storm in a bus shelter.
The storm left behind it a trail of devastation.
Our apple tree fell down in the storm.
The storm wreaked havoc in the garden, uprooting trees and blowing a fence down.

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Precipitation: stormy weather

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storm noun (EMOTIONAL REACTION)

[ C usually singular ]

a very angry reaction from a lot of people:

There was a storm of protest when the new tax was announced.

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Anger and displeasure

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storm noun (ATTACK)

take someone/something by storm

to be suddenly extremely successful in a place or with a group of people:

Her performance has taken the critics by storm.

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Succeeding, achieving and fulfilling

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Idioms

cook up, dance up, talk up, etc. a storm

storm in a teacup

storm

verb

/stɔːm/ us

/stɔːrm/

storm verb (ATTACK)

[ T ]

to attack a place or building by entering suddenly in great numbers:

The fortress was stormed by hundreds of soldiers.

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to try to hurt someone using violence

attackHe was attacked in the car park.
assaultThe intruder assaulted him in his home.
go forUK She suddenly lost her temper and went for me.
come atHe came at me with a baseball bat.
mugYes, that is the man who mugged me.
ambushThey ambushed him and left him for dead.

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Attacking & invading

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storm verb (EMOTIONAL REACTION)

[ I or T ] literary

to express anger in a loud and often uncontrolled way:

[ + speech ] "Get out and never come back!" he stormed.

storm in/into/out

to enter or leave a place in a way that shows that you are angry:

He stormed out of the house, slamming the door as he went.

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Talking angrily

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Becoming angry and expressing anger

-storm

suffix

/ -stɔːm/ us

/ -stɔːrm/

used to form words for particular types of violent weather:

a rainstorm

a sandstorm

a snowstorm

a thunderstorm

a windstorm

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Precipitation: stormy weather

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(Definition of storm from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

storm | American Dictionary

storm

noun [ C ]

/stɔrm/

storm noun [C] (VIOLENT WEATHER)

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an extreme weather condition with strong winds and heavy rain or snow:

The storm left over a foot of snow on the ground.

storm noun [C] (STRONG FEELING)

a strong expression of feeling, esp. in reaction to a statement or event:

The new rent regulations raised a storm of criticism from both renters and landlords.

storm

verb

/stɔrm/

storm verb (ATTACK)

[ T ]

to attack a place or building suddenly:

Officers stormed the building the demonstrators had occupied.

storm verb (SHOW STRONG FEELING)

[ I always + adv/prep ]

to move quickly and forcefully to show you are angry:

Henry stormed into Giffen’s office waving a copy of the newspaper and yelling at the top of his lungs.

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Examples of storm

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Now the messages of goodwill flash under the waves, heedless of storms.

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A large unknown is the effect of climate change on extreme weather events, such as droughts, floods, and storms.

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Impact of storms on mixed carbonate and silicilastic shelves: insights from combined diffusive and fluid-flow transport stratigraphic forward model.

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Another factor that needs to be addressed is the relevance of storms in the economic assessment of sea level rise.

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During the storms, winds are of variable direction.

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During such dust storms, the rover is expected to hibernate to conserve energy.

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He suggested that the animals lived at or near the entrances to the fissures and that night-time storms could catch the torpid animals unaware.

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The centimetre-thick bioclastic graded levels with quartz silt are inter preted as tempestites originated by density flows induced by storms.

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Our experimental approach consists of the simulation of an aerosol in a plausible prebiotic atmosphere and the simulation of storms using spark discharges.

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Other emigrants describe favorable conditions and good weather despite newspaper accounts of the same voyages that report dangerous storms, extreme weather conditions, and food shortages.

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What happened then must have surpassed the lecturer's wildest expectations: people virtually stormed his lecture hall.

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In the latter part of the nineteenth century the storms of the earlier part had largely blown themselves out.

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Most of the damage is caused by flooding associated with storms and hurricanes.

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Political liberalization can help authoritarian monarchies weather economic and political storms.

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Rainbows are their bodies, thunder is their voice, and storms are caused by their passage across the sky.

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Collocations with storm

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approaching storm

He foresaw the approaching storm, but the measures which he took were not adequate to restore the stability of the threatened funds.

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cyclonic storm

This suggests that salt-spray laden winds are usually quite localized within the wind field of a cyclonic storm.

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destructive storm

There is the possibility of a destructive storm destroying valuable county property, which will have to be replaced.

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Translations of storm

in Chinese (Traditional)

惡劣的天氣, 風暴, 暴風雨…

Meaning of storm in English

storm noun (VIOLENT WEATHER)

storm noun (EMOTIONAL REACTION)

storm noun (ATTACK)

Idioms

storm verb (ATTACK)

storm verb (EMOTIONAL REACTION)

storm | American Dictionary

storm noun [C] (VIOLENT WEATHER)

storm noun [C] (STRONG FEELING)

storm verb (ATTACK)

storm verb (SHOW STRONG FEELING)

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