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(n)
A storm, especially one with severe winds.
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An inclined surface that connects two levels; an incline.
Ability to influence; strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigour; might; capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect.
Violent uncontrolled anger.
Something unexpected.
(meteorology, informal) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see violent, storm., a severe weather event
A large snowstorm accompanied by strong winds and greatly reduced visibility caused by blowing snow.
(countable, uncountable) Real or perceived movement of atmospheric air usually caused by convection or differences in air pressure.
Bad weather involving blowing winds and snow, or blowing winds and heavy snowfall amount.
(meteorology) A violent wind in the form of a mobile, rapidly rotating, funnel cloud that has contacted the ground.
(loosely) Any weather phenomenon consisting of a system of winds rotating around a centre of low atmospheric pressure; a low pressure system.
A severe tropical cyclone; an intense storm rotating around a central eye.
A severe tropical cyclone; an intense, rotating storm.
The occurrence of liquid precipitation, the fall of rain.
A rain shower accompanied by thunder and lightning.
(forestry) The uprooting and/or overthrowing of a tree caused by the wind.
A storm characterized by substantial, heavy rainfall.
(adj)
Characterized by, or proceeding from, a storm; subject to storms; agitated with strong winds and heavy rain.
A brief fall of precipitation (spell of rain, or a similar fall of snow, sleet, or cascade); burst of hefty precipitation.
(figurative) An intense or violent altercation; an intense or violent response; an outburst (as of controversy)
(meteorology) Condensed water falling from a cloud.
(geology) Mechanical or chemical breaking down of rocks in situ by weather or other causes.
Water (for a house, etc.) sourced from rain which has not joined a spring, stream or river, pond, lake or sea.
An overflow of a large amount of water (usually disastrous) from a lake or other body of water due to excessive rainfall or other input of water.
A flash of light produced by short-duration, high-voltage discharge of electricity within a cloud, between clouds, or between a cloud and the earth.
A heavy rain.
Pouring with rain; wet; showery
The loud rumbling, cracking, or crashing sound caused by expansion of rapidly heated air around a lightning bolt.
(uncountable, aviation) Specifically, a state of agitation or disturbance in the air which is disruptive to an aircraft.
A violent gust of wind (in windy weather) or apparent wind (around a moving vehicle).
That portion of precipitation or irrigation on an area which does not infiltrate or evaporate, but instead is discharged from the area.
A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air.
(informal) A tantrum or emotional outburst.
(forestry) Uprooting, overtopping, or bole breakage of trees by the wind; windthrow and windsnap.
A violent flow, as of water, lava, etc.; a stream suddenly raised and running rapidly, as down a precipice.
A pipe or channel, or system of pipes or channels, used to remove human waste and to provide drainage.
(chiefly US, Canada) A conduit allowing liquid to flow out of an otherwise contained volume; a plughole (UK)
The act of saturating or the process of being saturated.
Filled with smoke.
(v)
To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to pierce.
A single action of sweeping.
A sudden, short, temporary burst of light.
A moving disturbance in the level of a body of liquid; an undulation.
A twisting force.
(colloquial) A tornado.
(intransitive) To fly apart with sudden violent force; to blow up, to burst, to detonate, to go off.
A forest in a climate with high annual rainfall and no dry season.
Disruptive change, from one state to another.
Synonym of temporary (“short-term employee”).
An unstable situation, in political, social, economic or military affairs, especially one involving an impending abrupt change.
The situation of something being clogged.
A fierce attack.
An instance of overrunning.
(military) A quick hostile or predatory incursion or invasion in a battle.
(transitive) To enter by force, usually in order to conquer.
An aggressive movement into somewhere; an invasion in the general sense.
(chiefly in the plural) Anything temporal or secular; a temporality.
Carrying out an attack.
An attempt to cause damage, injury to, or death of an opponent or enemy.
A violent onset or attack with physical means, for example blows, weapons, etc.
The act of carrying out a raid.
One serving for a limited time; a short-term employee, especially in an office.
The act or result of stirring (moving around the particles of a liquid etc.)
British, Canada, and Australia spelling of ardor.
An excess, too much.
A state of great disorder or uncertainty.
The act of disturbing, being disturbed.
A course of violent, frenzied action.
A debate or discussion of opposing opinions; (generally) strife.
An incident or event that disgraces or damages the reputation of the persons or organization involved.
(meteorology) A very strong wind, more than a breeze, less than a storm; number 7 through to 9 winds on the 12-step Beaufort scale.
Any of various species of black, grey, or white seabirds in the order Procellariiformes.
known beforehand
To throw with an initial upward direction.
(transitive) To attack, physically or figuratively; to assail.
(often nautical) A sudden storm, as found in a squall line.
A sudden heavy rainstorm.
(figuratively) A chaotic or turbulent situation.
A storm in which there are strong, violent winds but no precipitation.
Alternative form of hail storm. [A storm characterized by lots of large hail.]
Tropical rainy season when the rain lasts for several months with few interruptions.
A strong wind carrying clouds of sand and dust through the air.
A great flood or rain.
(meteorology, US) A windstorm characterized by strong, straight-line winds.
An act of flooding; a flood or gush.
(N)
a Norwegian neoclassical/progressive metal band formed in 1998.
The (formerly the Wellington Hurricanes) a New Zealand professional men's rugby union team based in Wellington that competes in Super Rugby.