VIOLENT STORM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does violent storm mean? 

• VIOLENT STORM (noun)
  The noun VIOLENT STORM has 1 sense:

1. a violent weather condition with winds 64-72 knots (11 on the Beaufort scale) and precipitation and thunder and lightning

  Familiarity information: VIOLENT STORM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VIOLENT STORM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A violent weather condition with winds 64-72 knots (11 on the Beaufort scale) and precipitation and thunder and lightning

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

storm; violent storm

Hypernyms ("violent storm" is a kind of...):

atmospheric phenomenon (a physical phenomenon associated with the atmosphere)

Meronyms (parts of "violent storm"):

storm center; storm centre (the central area or place of lowest barometric pressure within a storm)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "violent storm"):

firestorm (a storm in which violent winds are drawn into the column of hot air rising over a severely bombed area)

noreaster; northeaster (a storm blowing from the northeast)

hailstorm (a storm during which hail falls)

ice storm; silver storm (a storm with freezing rain that leaves everything glazed with ice)

rainstorm (a storm with rain)

blizzard; snowstorm (a storm with widespread snowfall accompanied by strong winds)

electric storm; electrical storm; thunderstorm (a storm resulting from strong rising air currents; heavy rain or hail along with thunder and lightning)

windstorm (a storm consisting of violent winds)

Holonyms ("violent storm" is a part of...):

Beaufort scale; wind scale (an international scale of wind force from 0 (calm air) to 12 (hurricane))

 Context examples 

But on the second, or at farthest the third night after your arrival, you will probably have a violent storm.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

When combined with the excess of carbon monoxide, this suggests that HR8799e’s atmosphere is engaged in an enormous and violent storm.

(GRAVITY instrument breaks new ground in exoplanet imaging, ESO)

The most violent storm hung exactly north of the town, over the part of the lake which lies between the promontory of Belrive and the village of Copêt.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

We had one violent storm, and were under a necessity of steering westward to get into the trade wind, which holds for above sixty leagues.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The mother shut her eyes and her ears, that she might see and hear nothing, but there was a roaring sound in her ears like that of a violent storm, and in her eyes a burning and flashing like lightning.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

It would not be proper, for some reasons, to trouble the reader with the particulars of our adventures in those seas; let it suffice to inform him, that in our passage from thence to the East Indies, we were driven by a violent storm to the north-west of Van Diemen’s Land.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)