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storm

Definition

  • noun: an occurrence of bad weather in which there is a lot of rain, snow, etc., and often strong winds
  • noun: a disturbance of the atmosphere marked by wind and usually by rain, snow, hail, sleet, or thunder and lightning
  • verb: to attack (something) suddenly with a lot of force or with a large number of people
  • verb: to blow with violence
  • usually singular
  • synonyms: violence, calamity, tempest

Examples

  • His racial comments 'kicked/whipped/stirred up a storm' in the newspapers. [=newspapers criticized his racial comments very strongly]

  • The college was quiet that morning, but it was 'the calm before the storm'. Thousands of students would arrive later.

  • Newspapers have 'weathered the storm' of online information by providing news online themselves.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) You bet. You'll love it. - Thanks a lot. - Enjoy it, man. Excuse me. Any chance of getting a lift? I live close by, but this storm just freaks me out. Sure. Please say something, or I'll take you for some kind of a pervert who lured me into his car to kill me. (..)
    2015 Virgin Mountain
  • (..) What's up, Fúsi boy? Driving around as usual? Yeah. I hear the weather is getting pretty nasty, is that right? Yeah, it kind of looks like a storm, right now. Well, they could drop an atom bomb and I wouldn't notice all holed up in my little studio bunker. (..)
    2015 Virgin Mountain