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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

  • (..) l'm blind! By God's might, by man's running! Rise up! When will this rotten summer end? ln a film, it'd already be over. Fade-out: cut to storm. Wouldn't that be great? Tell them l am Odyssey! Elena-- But when? Today. (..)
    1988 Cinema Paradiso