tempest

[Tem·pest]

Shakespeare's The Tempest begins with one –– a tempest, or a violent and windy storm.

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

Noun
(literary) a violent wind; "a tempest swept over the island"

Noun
a violent commotion or disturbance; "the storms that had characterized their relationship had died away"; "it was only a tempest in a teapot"

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

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

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

v. t.
To disturb as by a tempest.

v. i.
To storm.

Tempest

Tem"pest , n. [OF. tempeste, F. temp'88te, (assumed) LL. tempesta, fr. L. tempestas a portion of time, a season, weather, storm, akin to tempus time. See Temporal of time.] 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.

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. &hand; 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.

Tempest

Tem"pest, v. t. [Cf. OF. tempester, F. temp'88ter to rage.] To disturb as by a tempest. [Obs.]

Part huge of bulk Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait, Tempest the ocean.

Tempest

Tem"pest, v. i. To storm. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

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

To disturb as by a tempest.

To storm.

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