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storm
verb
uk /stɔːm/ us /stɔːrm/

stormverb (ATTACK)

[ T ]
to attack a place or building by entering suddenly in great numbers: 突袭;攻占
The fortress was stormed by hundreds of soldiers.数百名士兵强行攻占了堡垒。

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to try to hurt someone using violence
attackHe was attacked in the car park.
assaultThe intruder assaulted him in his home.
go forUKShe suddenly lost her temper and went for me.
come atHe came at me with a baseball bat.
mugYes, that is the man who mugged me.
ambushThey ambushed him and left him for dead.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Attacking & invading
advance guard
aggressor
ambush
beleaguer
beleaguered
besiege
blitz
cyberbullying
cyberwarfare
declare war on someone/something
false flag
full-frontal assault
hit and run
pincer movement
post-attack
post-conquest
pre-emption
privateer
surgical strike
swoop

stormverb (EMOTIONAL REACTION)

[ I or T ]literary
to express anger in a loud and often uncontrolled way: 大发雷霆，暴怒，咆哮
[ + speech ]"Get out and never come back!" he stormed.“滚出去，再也不准回来！”他咆哮道。
 storm in/into/out
to enter or leave a place in a way that shows that you are angry: 怒气冲冲地冲进／冲出
He stormed out of the house, slamming the door as he went.他气呼呼地冲出房子，砰地关上了门。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Talking angrily
bite
bite someone's head offidiom
bite/snap someone's head offidiom
blusteringly
dress
dress down
edge
fling
harangue
hue
huff
invective
jump
mouth
piece
roasting
spit
spit blood/venomidiom
tongue-lashing
upbraid

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Becoming angry and expressing anger
-storm
suffix
uk / -stɔːm/ us / -stɔːrm/
used to form words for particular types of violent weather: …风暴的（用于构词，表示特殊类型的暴烈天气）
a rainstorm暴风雨
a sandstorm沙暴
a snowstorm暴风雪
a thunderstorm雷暴
a windstorm风暴

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Precipitation: stormy weather
angrily
blizzard
bolt
bomb cyclone
bombogenesis
cyclogenesis
cyclonic
electrical storm
elemental
hurricane
sheet lightning
squall
storm chasing
tempestuously
thundersnow
thunderstorm
tornadic
tornado
weather bomb
whirlwind

storm | American Dictionary

storm
noun[ C ]
us/stɔrm/

stormnoun[C] (VIOLENT WEATHER)

an extreme weather condition with strong winds and heavy rain or snow:
The storm left over a foot of snow on the ground.

stormnoun[C] (STRONG FEELING)

a strong expression of feeling, esp. in reaction to a statement or event:
The new rent regulations raised a storm of criticism from both renters and landlords.
storm
verb
us/stɔrm/

stormverb (ATTACK)

[ T ]
to attack a place or building suddenly:
Officers stormed the building the demonstrators had occupied.

stormverb (SHOW STRONG FEELING)

[ Ialways+ adv/prep ]
to move quickly and forcefully to show you are angry:
Henry stormed into Giffen’s office waving a copy of the newspaper and yelling at the top of his lungs.

Examples of storm

storm
Now the messages of goodwill flash under the waves, heedless of storms.
A large unknown is the effect of climate change on extreme weather events, such as droughts, floods, and storms.
Impact of storms on mixed carbonate and silicilastic shelves: insights from combined diffusive and fluid-flow transport stratigraphic forward model.
Another factor that needs to be addressed is the relevance of storms in the economic assessment of sea level rise.
During the storms, winds are of variable direction.
During such dust storms, the rover is expected to hibernate to conserve energy.
He suggested that the animals lived at or near the entrances to the fissures and that night-time storms could catch the torpid animals unaware.
The centimetre-thick bioclastic graded levels with quartz silt are inter preted as tempestites originated by density flows induced by storms.
Our experimental approach consists of the simulation of an aerosol in a plausible prebiotic atmosphere and the simulation of storms using spark discharges.
Other emigrants describe favorable conditions and good weather despite newspaper accounts of the same voyages that report dangerous storms, extreme weather conditions, and food shortages.
What happened then must have surpassed the lecturer's wildest expectations: people virtually stormed his lecture hall.
In the latter part of the nineteenth century the storms of the earlier part had largely blown themselves out.
Most of the damage is caused by flooding associated with storms and hurricanes.
Political liberalization can help authoritarian monarchies weather economic and political storms.
Rainbows are their bodies, thunder is their voice, and storms are caused by their passage across the sky.
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Collocations withstorm

storm

These are words often used in combination with storm.

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approaching storm
He foresaw the approachingstorm, but the measures which he took were not adequate to restore the stability of the threatened funds.
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