storm

Meanings

Plural: storm, stormed, storms

Noun

• a violent weather condition with winds 64-72 knots (11 on the Beaufort scale) and precipitation and thunder and lightning
• a violent commotion or disturbance
  • "the storms that had characterized their relationship had died away"
• a direct and violent assault on a stronghold
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Synonym of cyclone (“a weather phenomenon consisting of a system of winds rotating around a centre of low atmospheric pressure”).
• 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.
• A period of frosty and/or snowy weather.
• 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.
• 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").
• 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.
• A heavy expulsion or fall of things (as blows, objects which are thrown, etc.).
• A violent agitation of human society; a domestic, civil, or political commotion.
• A violent commotion or outbreak of sounds, speech, thoughts, etc.; also, an outpouring of emotion.
• Chiefly with a qualifying word: a violent attack of diease, pain, physiological reactions, symptoms, etc.; a paroxysm.
• 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”).
• A violent assault on a fortified position or stronghold.

Verb

• behave violently, as if in state of a great anger
• take by force
  • "Storm the fort"
• rain, hail, or snow hard and be very windy, often with thunder or lightning
  • "If it storms, we'll need shelter"
• blow hard
  • "It was storming all night"
• attack by storm; attack suddenly
• Preceded by the dummy subject it: to have strong winds and usually lightning and thunder, and/or hail, rain, or snow.
• To make (someone or something) stormy; to agitate (someone or something) violently.
• To disturb or trouble (someone).
• To use (harsh language).
• To violently assault (a fortified position or stronghold, a building, etc.) with the aim of gaining control of it.
• To violently assault (a fortified position or stronghold, a building, etc.) with the aim of gaining control of it.
• To assault or gain control or power over (someone's heart, mind, etc.).
• To catch up (on production output) by making frenzied or herculean efforts.
• To protect (seed-hay) from stormy weather by putting sheaves of them into small stacks.
• Of the weather: to be violent, with strong winds and usually lightning and thunder, and/or hail, rain, or snow.
• To be exposed to harsh (especially cold) weather.
• To move noisily and quickly like a storm (noun sense 1), usually in a state of anger or uproar.
• To move quickly in the course of an assault on a fortified position or stronghold, a building, etc.
• To be in a violent temper; to use harsh language; to fume, to rage.

Synonyms

aggravate, annoy, antagonize, bedevil, boil someone's piss, bother, botherate, bug, burn up, chap someone's hide, cheese off, cyclone, devil, disgruntle, exasperate, force, frustrate, get, get on someone's nerves, get on someone's tits, get on someone's wick, get someone's back up, get someone's dander up, get someone's goat, get someone's Irish up, get someone's nanny, get someone's nanny-goat, get under one's goat, get up, give someone the shits, grate, grind one's gears, grotch, hack off, harsh one's mellow, hassle, Idioms:, irk, irritate, jazz, molest, mommick, nark, pee off, peeve, persecute, pique, piss off, procelle, provoke, put someone's back up, rage, raise someone's hackles, ramp, rankle, rile, rile up, roil, rub someone the wrong way, rub up the wrong way, ruffle, ruffle someone's feathers, sting, storm, surprise, tee off, tempest, test someone's patience, tick off, torque off, trouble, try one's patience, tumult, vex, violent storm, wind up

Related Words

blizzard, hydrometeor