storm

storm is a 5-letter English word with 16 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 8 · 16 senses

Definitions

1. 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.
2. noun. A violent agitation of human society; a civil, political, or domestic commotion; sedition, insurrection, or war; violent outbreak; clamor; tumult.
3. noun. A heavy shower or fall, any adverse outburst of tumultuous force; violence.
4. 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.
5. transitive verb. To assault; to attack, and attempt to take, by scaling walls, forcing gates, breaches, or the like; as, to storm a fortified town.
6. intransitive verb. To raise a tempest.
7. 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; as, it storms.
8. intransitive verb. To rage; to be in a violent passion; to fume.
9. noun. a direct and violent assault on a stronghold
10. noun. a violent weather condition with winds 64-72 knots (11 on the Beaufort scale) and precipitation and thunder and lightning
11. noun. a violent commotion or disturbance

    "the storms that had characterized their relationship had died away"

    "it was only a tempest in a teapot"

    Synonyms: tempest

12. verb. attack by storm; attack suddenly

    Synonyms: surprise

13. verb. take by force

    "Storm the fort"

    Synonyms: force

14. verb. behave violently, as if in state of a great anger

    Synonyms: rage, ramp

15. verb. blow hard

    "It was storming all night"

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

    "If it storms, we'll need shelter"

Synonyms

tempest, surprise, force, rage, ramp

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in storm:

morts, strom

Common word forms

storms, stormed, stormer, stormful, storming, stormable, stormless

Words from these letters

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