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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
- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
A violent agitation of human society; a civil, political, or domestic commotion; sedition, insurrection, or war; violent outbreak; clamor; tumult.
- 3noun
A heavy shower or fall, any adverse outburst of tumultuous force; violence.
- 4noun
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.
- 5transitive verb
To assault; to attack, and attempt to take, by scaling walls, forcing gates, breaches, or the like; as, to storm a fortified town.
- 6intransitive verb
To raise a tempest.
- 7intransitive 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.
- 8intransitive verb
To rage; to be in a violent passion; to fume.
- 9noun
a direct and violent assault on a stronghold
- 10noun
a violent weather condition with winds 64-72 knots (11 on the Beaufort scale) and precipitation and thunder and lightning
- 11noun
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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- 12verb
attack by storm; attack suddenly
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- 13verb
take by force
"Storm the fort"
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- 14verb
behave violently, as if in state of a great anger
- 15verb
blow hard
"It was storming all night"
- 16verb
rain, hail, or snow hard and be very windy, often with thunder or lightning
"If it storms, we'll need shelter"
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