Thesaurus: tempest

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1. n. An extensive current of wind, rushing with great velocity and violence, and commonly attended with rain, hail, or snow; a furious storm.
2. n. Fig.: Any violent tumult or commotion; as, a political tempest; a tempest of war, or of the passions.
3. n. A fashionable assembly; a drum. See the Note under Drum, n., 4.
4. v. t. To disturb as by a tempest.
5. v. i. To storm.
6. n. a violent commotion or disturbance
7. n. (literary) a violent wind
8. 1. An extensive current of wind, rushing with great velocity and violence, and commonly attended with rain, hail, or snow; a furious storm. [We] caught in a fiery tempest, shall be hurled, Each on his rock transfixed. Milton. 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. [Archaic] Smollett. Note: Tempest is sometimes used in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, tempest-beaten, tempest-loving, tempest-tossed, tempest-winged, and the like. Syn. -- Storm; agitation; perturbation. See Storm. To disturb as by a tempest. [Obs.] Part huge of bulk Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait, Tempest the ocean. Milton. To storm. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
9. To disturb as by a tempest. [Obs.]Part huge of bulk Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait, Tempestthe ocean. Milton.
10. n:100 n. (literary) a violent wind