| word | storm |
|---|---|
| definition | noun A storm is very bad weather, with heavy rain, strong winds, and often thunder and lightning. ...the violent storms which whipped America's East Coast. If something causes a storm, it causes an angry or excited reaction from a large number of people. The photos caused a storm when they were first published. The announcement provoked an immediate storm of protest. ...the storm of publicity that Richard's book had generated. A storm of applause or other noise is a sudden loud amount of it made by an audience or other group of people in reaction to something. His speech was greeted with a storm of applause. The medals ceremony caused a storm of booing. verb If you storm into or out of a place, you enter or leave it quickly and noisily, because you are angry. After a bit of an argument, he stormed out. He stormed into an office, demanding to know where the head of department was. If you storm, you say something in a very loud voice, because you are extremely angry. 'It's a fiasco,' he stormed. If a place that is being defended is stormed, a group of people attack it, usually in order to get inside it. Government buildings have been stormed and looted. The refugees decided to storm the embassy. ...the storming of the Bastille. |
| inflections | stormsstormingstormedstorming |
| cefr-level | A2 |
Tags: oxford5k::cefr-level:a2
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