Definition of Storm

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Definition of Storm

Storm

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.

A violent agitation of human society; a civil, political, or domestic commotion; sedition, insurrection, or war; violent outbreak; clamor; tumult.

A heavy shower or fall, any adverse outburst of tumultuous force; violence.

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.

To assault; to attack, and attempt to take, by scaling walls, forcing gates, breaches, or the like; as, to storm a fortified town.

To raise a tempest.

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.

To rage; to be in a violent passion; to fume.

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Storm Quotations

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.
Mohandas Gandhi

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
Frederick Douglass

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.
Robert H. Schuller

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
Rabindranath Tagore

A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.
John Muir

Look for me in the whirlwind or the storm.
Marcus Garvey

We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in 'Red Storm Rising'.
Dan Quayle

No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
Charles Kettering

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
Vincent Van Gogh

Storm Translations

storm in Danish is storm
storm in Dutch is storm
storm in German is Sturm
storm in Italian is tempesta, burrasca
storm in Latin is tempestas, procella
storm in Norwegian is storm
storm in Portuguese is tempestade
storm in Spanish is tempestad, tormenta

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