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tempest
[ tem-pist ]
noun
- a violent windstorm, especially one with rain, hail, or snow.
- a violent commotion, disturbance, or tumult.
verb (used with object)
- to affect by or as by a tempest; disturb violently.
tempest
/ ˈtɛmpɪst /
noun
- literary.a violent wind or storm
- a violent commotion, uproar, or disturbance
verb
- poetic.tr to agitate or disturb violently
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of tempest1
Idioms and Phrases
- tempest in a teacup. teacup ( def 3 ).
Example Sentences
Much of the nation has been caught up in a tempest that resembled one of the dinner-table scenes in August: Osage County.
Tempest, hurricane, tidal wave, tsunami, earthquake, or Big Bang?
The first grey pencillings of dawn would raise a tempest which would shake two hemispheres.
Of course, this particular fooforaw may be a tempest in a teapot: OPM may rule that they can offer subsidies to staffers.
But for now at least, most seem to have weathered the initial tempest without incurring too much damage.
In truth, M. de Biancourt's goodness and prudence seemed much shaken by this tempest of human passions.
What might be of a disturbing nature in the old farmhouse could not, she thought, be as fearsome as the approaching tempest.
And Isabel dropped her head into her arms and burst into a wild tempest of tears, like a child that has had its first whipping.
The Republic had proved an utter failure, and France was but a tempest-tossed ocean of anarchy.
I round the threshold wandering here,Vainly the tempest and the rain invoke,That they may keep my lady prisoner.
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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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