storm

• (UK) IPA^(key): /stɔːm/
• (US) IPA^(key): /stɔɹm/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)m

From Middle English storm, from Old English storm (“a storm, tempest; a storm of arrows; disturbance, disquiet; uproar, tumult; rush, onrush, attack, violent attack”), from Proto-West Germanic *sturm, from Proto-Germanic *sturmaz (“storm”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)twerH- (“to rotate, swirl, twirl, move around”). Related to stir.

storm (plural storms)

1. Any disturbed state of the atmosphere, especially as affecting the earth's surface, and strongly implying destructive or unpleasant weather.

   The boat was torn to pieces in the storm, and nobody survived.

   • 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene i]:

     We hear this fearful tempest sing, / Yet seek no shelter to avoid the storm.

   • 2012 January 1, Donald Worster, “A Drier and Hotter Future”, in American Scientist‎, volume 100, number 1, page 70:

     Phoenix and Lubbock are both caught in severe drought, and it is going to get much worse. We may see many such [dust] storms in the decades ahead, along with species extinctions, radical disturbance of ecosystems, and intensified social conflict over land and water. Welcome to the Anthropocene, the epoch when humans have become a major geological and climatic force.

2. (Australia) A thunderstorm.
3. A violent agitation of human society; a civil, political, or domestic commotion; violent outbreak.

   The proposed reforms have led to a political storm.

   • c. 1590–1592, William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene i]:

     Her sister / Began to scold and raise up such a storm.

4. (meteorology) a wind scale for very strong wind, stronger than a gale, less than a hurricane (10 or higher on the Beaufort scale).
5. (military) A violent assault on a stronghold or fortified position.

• See also Thesaurus:storm

• (meteorology): breeze, gale, hurricane

• → Esperanto: ŝtormo
• → Irish: stoirm
• → Scottish Gaelic: stoirm

• blizzard

From Middle English stormen, sturmen, from Old English styrman (“to storm, rage; make a great noise, cry aloud, shout”), from Proto-West Germanic *sturmijan, from Proto-Germanic *sturmijaną (“to storm”). Cognate with Dutch stormen (“to storm; bluster”), Low German stormen (“to storm”), German stürmen (“to storm; rage; attack; assault”), Swedish storma (“to storm; bluster”), Icelandic storma (“to storm”).

storm (third-person singular simple present storms, present participle storming, simple past and past participle stormed)

1. (impersonal) (weather it) To be violent, with strong winds and usually rain, thunder, lightning, or snow.

   It stormed throughout the night.

2. (intransitive) (figurative) To rage or fume; to be in a violent temper.
   • 1731 (date written, published 1745)​, Jonathan Swift, “Directions to Servants”, in Thomas Sheridan and John Nichols, editors, The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, […], volume XVI, new edition, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1801, OCLC 1184656746:

     The master storms, the lady scolds.

3. (intransitive, with adverbial of direction) To move quickly and noisily like a storm, usually in a state of uproar or anger.

   She stormed out of the room.

   • 1960 October, P. Ransome-Wallis, “Modern motive power of the German Federal Railway: Part Two”, in Trains Illustrated, page 611:

     A lovely crisp exhaust: a feeling of almost unlimited power combined with complete freedom of running: and, to crown it all, a most melodious and wholly American chime whistle—these were my immediate impressions as we stormed rapidly out of Göttingen, intent on winning back some of the lost time.

4. (transitive) [army; crowd, rioters] To assault (a significant building) with the aim to gain power over it.

   Troops stormed the complex.

   the storming of the Bastille

   • 1974 [1973], Karol, K. S., “The August of the Ultra-Left”, in Mervyn Jones, transl., The Second Chinese Revolution‎, Hill and Wang, LCCN 73-91174, OCLC 482659617, page 278:

     The crowd was patient and never dreamed of storming Chungnanhai (which could scarcely have resisted a mass assault) and the most battle-tested groups made no attempt to send their commandos to kidnap the “highest leader.” Calm—if one may use the word—prevailed, and the group leaders were content to lead their followers in chanting slogans against Liu and quotations from Mao. The Chairman, like Vice-Chairman Lin Piao, had been away on a tour of inspection in the provinces since early July; at the time of the siege of Chungnanhai, he was in Wuhan.

5. (transitive) (rare, poetic) to assault, gain power over (heart, mind+).
   • 1750, Thomas Morell (lyrics), George Frideric Handel (music), “Theodora”‎:

     No engine can a tyrant find, to storm the truth-supported mind.

• bestorm

• storm on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Beaufort scale on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Storm in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

• Morts, morts

From Dutch storm.

• IPA^(key): /stɔrm/, [stɔɾm], [ˈstɔɾəm]
• The plural is almost always disyllabic.

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storm (plural storms)

1. storm

From Old Norse stormr (“storm”), from Proto-Germanic *sturmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)twer-, *(s)tur- (“to rotate, swirl, twirl, move around”).

storm c (singular definite stormen, plural indefinite storme)

1. storm

storm

1. imperative of storme

• IPA^(key): /stɔrm/

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• Hyphenation: storm
• Rhymes: -ɔrm

From Middle Dutch storm, from Old Dutch *storm, from Proto-West Germanic *sturm, from Proto-Germanic *sturmaz.

storm m (plural stormen, diminutive stormpje n)

1. storm; a wind scale for very strong wind, stronger than a gale, less than a hurricane.
2. (of sieges or battles) assault, storming

   Synonym: bestorming

Unlike English storm, the Dutch word is not associated with rainfall. A storm may, of course, be accompanied by rainfall, but the word as such refers only to strong winds.

• stormen
• stormachtig
• stormvloed
• stormweer
• stormwind
• beeldenstorm
• hagelstorm
• regenstorm
• sneeuwstorm
• wervelstorm
• zandstorm
• zeestorm

• Afrikaans: storm
• Negerhollands: storm
• → Papiamentu: storm

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

storm

1. first-person singular present indicative of stormen
2. imperative of stormen

• morst

storm

1. indefinite accusative singular of stormur

From Old Dutch *storm, from Proto-West Germanic *sturm.

storm m

1. storm, violent weather
2. storm, heavy wind
3. storm, assault

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: storm
• Limburgish: stórm

• “storm (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “storm”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

• storme, strom, starme, storem (all but the first are rare)

Inherited from Old English storm.

• IPA^(key): /stɔrm/

storm (plural stormes)

1. A storm; an instance of intense wind and precipitation (including a snowstorm)
2. An armed dispute, brawl or fight; an instance of combativeness.
3. (rare) Any intense event, happening, or force.

• stormy

• English: storm
  • → Esperanto: ŝtormo
  • → Irish: stoirm
  • → Scottish Gaelic: stoirm
• Scots: storm
• Yola: stharm, starm

• “storm, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-08.

From Old Norse stormr, from Proto-Germanic *sturmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)twer-, *(s)tur- (“to rotate, swirl, twirl, move around”).

storm m (definite singular stormen, indefinite plural stormer, definite plural stormene)

1. a storm

   En kraftig storm er venta seinere i dag.

   A strong storm is expected to hit later today.

   en storm i et vannglass - a storm in a teacup (British)

• storme

storm

1. imperative of storme

• “storm” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse stormr, from Proto-Germanic *sturmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)twer-, *(s)tur- (“to rotate, swirl, twirl, move around”). Akin to English storm.

• IPA^(key): /stɔrm/

storm m (definite singular stormen, indefinite plural stormar, definite plural stormane)

1. storm (a very strong wind, stronger than a gale, less than a hurricane)

   Ein kraftig storm er venta seinare i dag.

   A strong storm is expected to hit later today.

• “storm” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• stearm

From Proto-West Germanic *sturm, whence also Old Saxon storm, Old High German sturm, Old Norse stormr.

• IPA^(key): /storm/, [storˠm]

storm m

1. storm

• Middle English: storm
  • English: storm
    • → Esperanto: ŝtormo
    • → Irish: stoirm
    • → Scottish Gaelic: stoirm
  • Scots: storm
  • Yola: stharm, starm

From Old Swedish stormber, from Old Norse stormr, from Proto-Germanic *sturmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)twer-, *(s)tur- (“to rotate, swirl, twirl, move around”).

• IPA^(key): /stɔrm/

• Audio (Phrase including indefinite article: en storm, literally 'a storm'. Female speaker from Gotland, Sweden.)

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storm c

1. storm; heavy winds or weather associated with storm winds.

• ta någon med storm
• storma
• storma in
• snöstorm
• höststorm

• smort