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tempest

Part of Speech: noun

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1. An extensive current of wind, rushing with great velocity and violence, and commonly attended with rain, hail, or snow; a furious storm.

2. Fig.: Any violent tumult or commotion; as, a political tempest; a tempest of war, or of the passions.

3. A fashionable assembly; a drum. See the Note under Drum, n., 4.

Part of Speech: verb intransitive, transitive

1. To storm.

Part of Speech: verb transitive

1. To disturb as by a tempest.

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They despised the tempest which threatened them in this case also. - "The History of Rome; Books Nine to Twenty-Six", Titus Livius.
The boatmen, in the turmoil of raging water and howling wind, did not observe this, and a cry of consternation was uttered by the people on the pier, who saw the whole thing clearly from their elevated position; but the cry was either drowned by the noise of the tempest, or not understood by the boatmen. - "The Lifeboat", R.M. Ballantyne.
The first thing which my mind opened to perceive was that, while the tempest was less strong, the ice was now in extraordinary agitation. - "The Purple Cloud", M.P. Shiel.

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