storm

noun

disturbed atmospheric state

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verb

to invade with a large fighting group, move violently and suddenly
to blow or precipitate vigorously (an often unpleasant, windy, precipitative weather event)

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /stɔːm/ / /stɔɹm/

name

A unisex given name.
A surname.

noun

Etymology: The verb is derived from Middle English stormen (“of the wind: to blow violently; to cause to roll or toss”), from storm (noun) (see etymology 1) + -en (suffix forming the infinitives of verbs). Compare Middle English sturmen (“to attack (someone) with great force”), from Old English styrman (“to rage, storm; to make a great noise, cry aloud, shout, storm”), from Proto-West Germanic *sturmijan (“to storm”), from Proto-Germanic *sturmijaną (“to storm”), from *sturmaz (“a storm”) (see etymology 1) + *-janą (suffix forming causatives from strong verbs, with a sense of ‘to cause to do [the action of the verb]’). The Middle English word did not survive into modern English. The noun is derived from verb etymology 2, verb sense 2.3 (“to violently assault (a fortified position or stronghold, a building, etc.) with the aim of gaining control of it”). Cognates * Dutch stormen (“to bluster, storm”) * German stürmen (“to rage, storm; to assault, attack”) * Icelandic storma (“to storm”) * Low German stormen (“to storm”) * Swedish storma (“to bluster, storm”)

A violent assault on a fortified position or stronghold.

verb

Preceded by the dummy subject it: to have strong winds and usually lightning and thunder, and/or hail, rain, or snow.
“It stormed throughout the night.”
“Throughout the night it stormed violently—rain, hail, snow, and sleet beating upon the vessel—the wind continuing ahead, and the sea running high.”
To make (someone or something) stormy; to agitate (someone or something) violently.
“And dovvne I laid to liſt the ſad tun'd tale, / Ere long eſpied a fickle maid full pale / Tearing of papers breaking rings a tvvaine, / Storming her vvorld vvith ſorrovves, vvind and raine.”
“Meantime, our simulated thunderclaps / Which tell us counterfeited truths—these same / Are—sound, when music storms the soul, perhaps?”
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.
“the storming of the Bastille”
“Troops stormed the complex.”
To violently assault (a fortified position or stronghold, a building, etc.) with the aim of gaining control of it.
“No Engines can a Tyrant find, / to ſtorm the Truth-ſupported Mind, […]”
To catch up (on production output) by making frenzied or herculean efforts.
“They were storming near the end of the month to salvage some goodwill.”
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.
“My harueſte haſts to ſtirre vp winter ſterne, / And bids him clayme with rigorous rage hys right. / So nowe he ſtormes with many a ſturdy ſtoure, / So now his bluſtring blaſt eche coſte doth ſcoure.”
“[H]e, whose bow thus storm'd / For our offences, may be calm'd.”
To be exposed to harsh (especially cold) weather.
To move noisily and quickly like a storm (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1), usually in a state of anger or uproar.
“She stormed out of the room.”
“Then the music touch'd the gates and died; / Rose again from where it seem'd to fail, / Storm'd in orbs of song, a growing gale; […]”
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.
“[T]he prieſts of the countrey cluſtering togither, began to grudge and ſtorme againſt Tindall [William Tyndale], rauing againſt him in alehouſes and other places.”
“VVhy looke you hovv you ſtorme, / I vvould be friends vvith you, and haue your loue, / Forget the ſhames that you haue ſtain'd me vvith, […]”