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Storm

noun

A violent weather condition with winds 64-72 knots (11 on the Beaufort scale) and precipitation and thunder and lightning. Synonym: violent storm.

A violent commotion or disturbance. Synonym: tempest. "It was only a tempest in a teapot"

A direct and violent assault on a stronghold.

verb

(past & past part. stormed; pres. part. storming)

Behave violently, as if in state of a great anger. Synonyms: rage, ramp.

Take by force. Synonym: force.

Rain, hail, or snow hard and be very windy, often with thunder or lightning.

Blow hard.

Attack by storm; attack suddenly. Synonym: surprise.

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... 1990, Saudi Arabia accepted the Kuwaiti royal family and 400,000 refugees while allowing Western and Arab troops to deploy on its soil for the liberation of Kuwait the following year. The continuing presence of foreign troops on Saudi soil after Operation Desert Storm remained a source of tension between the royal family and the public until the US military's near-complete withdrawal to neighboring Qatar in 2003. The first major terrorist attacks in Saudi Arabia ...

— The 2004 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency

... first blizzard struck us early in December, the thermometer dropped sixty degrees in twelve hours, but in the absence of wind and snow the cattle did not leave the breaks along the river. Three weeks later a second one came, and we could not catch the lead animals until near the railroad; but the storm drove them up the Little Missouri, and its sheltering banks helped us to check our worst winter drift. After the first month of wintry weather, the dread of the cold passed, and men and horses faced the ...

— The Outlet • Andy Adams

... invasion, whose forecoursing streams of cavalry skirmishers were already high over his head. The earth had lost its laughing colors, and seemed to lie cowering, with its head covered with a dull mantle, and the sea had accepted the challenge of the storm clouds and was beginning to leap forward in ...

— 'Smiles' - A Rose of the Cumberlands • Eliot H. Robinson

... strange visitor. No, not all; I must not tell him about the letter, thought I. My uncle might not wish it to be published to the world. I ran out upon the street and told the first officer I met how the old man had rapped at my door during the storm; how I had given him my bed out of pity, and how I had discovered on awaking in the morning that he ...

— The Master of Silence • Irving Bacheller

... unrivalled master, there is no denying that he enjoys it immensely; and as he is ourself for the moment, or at least the chief portion of ourself (the other half-self retiring into a dim corner of semiconsciousness and cowering under the storm of sneers and contumely,—you follow me perfectly, Beloved,—the way is as plain as the path of the babe to the maternal fount), as, I say, the abusive fellow is the chief part of us for the time, and he ...

— The Poet at the Breakfast Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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