storm
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: agriculture
business
government
lifestyle
military
politics
war
Etymology: The verb is derived from Middle English stormen (“of the wind: to blow violently; to cause to roll or toss”), from storm (noun) (see etymology 1) + -en (suffix forming the infinitives of verbs).
Compare Middle English sturmen (“to attack (someone) with great force”), from Old English styrman (“to rage, storm; to make a great noise, cry aloud, shout, storm”), from Proto-West Germanic *sturmijan (“to storm”), from Proto-Germanic *sturmijaną (“to storm”), from *sturmaz (“a storm”) (see etymology 1) + *-janą (suffix forming causatives from strong verbs, with a sense of ‘to cause to do [the action of the verb]’). The Middle English word did not survive into modern English.
The noun is derived from verb etymology 2, verb sense 2.3 (“to violently assault (a fortified position or stronghold, a building, etc.) with the aim of gaining control of it”).
Cognates
* Dutch stormen (“to bluster, storm”)
* German stürmen (“to rage, storm; to assault, attack”)
* Icelandic storma (“to storm”)
* Low German stormen (“to storm”)
* Swedish storma (“to bluster, storm”)
Inflected forms:
form: storms
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: storming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: stormed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: stormed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: storm
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: storm
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: stormed
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: storm
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: stormest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: stormed
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: stormedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: storms
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: stormeth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: stormed
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: storm
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: stormed
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: storm
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: stormed
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: storm
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: storming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: stormed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: Preceded by the dummy subject it: to have strong winds and usually lightning and thunder, and/or hail, rain, or snow.
pos: verb
tags: US
impersonal
examples: It stormed throughout the night.
Throughout the night it stormed violently—rain, hail, snow, and sleet beating upon the vessel—the wind continuing ahead, and the sea running high.
We all like to see people seasick when we are not, ourselves. Playing whist by the cabin lamps when it is storming outside, is pleasant; walking the quarter-deck in the moonlight, is pleasant; […] but these are all feeble and commonplace compared with the joy of seeing people suffering the miseries of seasickness.
gloss: To make (someone or something) stormy; to agitate (someone or something) violently.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: And dovvne I laid to liſt the ſad tun'd tale, / Ere long eſpied a fickle maid full pale / Tearing of papers breaking rings a tvvaine, / Storming her vvorld vvith ſorrovves, vvind and raine.
Meantime, our simulated thunderclaps / Which tell us counterfeited truths—these same / Are—sound, when music storms the soul, perhaps?
The driver turned in the saddle to see if there were any chance of capturing the revolver and ending the ride. Dick roused, struck him over the head with the butt, and stormed himself wide awake.
gloss: To disturb or trouble (someone).
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
gloss: To use (harsh language).
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
gloss: To violently assault (a fortified position or stronghold, a building, etc.) with the aim of gaining control of it.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: the storming of the Bastille
Troops stormed the complex.
All night beneath hard heavy arms to vvatch; / All day to mount the trench, to ſtorm the breach; […]
The assailants were repulsed in their first attack, and several of their bravest officers were shot down in the act of storming the fortress, sword in hand.
The crowd was patient and never dreamed of storming Chungnanhai (which could scarcely have resisted a mass assault) and the most battle-tested groups made no attempt to send their commandos to kidnap the “highest leader.” Calm—if one may use the word—prevailed, and the group leaders were content to lead their followers in chanting slogans against Liu [Shaoqi] and quotations from Mao [Zedong]. The Chairman, like Vice-Chairman Lin Piao, had been away on a tour of inspection in the provinces since early July; at the time of the siege of Chungnanhai, he was in Wuhan.
gloss: To violently assault (a fortified position or stronghold, a building, etc.) with the aim of gaining control of it.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
often
poetic
transitive
examples: No Engines can a Tyrant find, / to ſtorm the Truth-ſupported Mind, […]
gloss: To catch up (on production output) by making frenzied or herculean efforts.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
especially
transitive
examples: They were storming near the end of the month to salvage some goodwill.
gloss: To protect (seed-hay) from stormy weather by putting sheaves of them into small stacks.
pos: verb
tags: UK
dialectal
transitive
gloss: Of the weather: to be violent, with strong winds and usually lightning and thunder, and/or hail, rain, or snow.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: My harueſte haſts to ſtirre vp winter ſterne, / And bids him clayme with rigorous rage hys right. / So nowe he ſtormes with many a ſturdy ſtoure, / So now his bluſtring blaſt eche coſte doth ſcoure.
[H]e, whose bow thus storm'd / For our offences, may be calm'd.
From Shetland ſtradling vvide, his [Boreas's] foote on Thuly ſets: / VVhence ſtorming, all the vaſt Deucalidon hee threts, / And beares his boyſtrous vvaues into the narrovver mouth / Of the Verginian Sea: […]
[A]fter a ſhort calm vve obſerved the Ocean firſt to ferment and heave, and then to vvrinkle her ſmooth face, and veering into a contrary romp at length to pull and bluſter, yea next day to ſtorm ſo outrageouſly, that the Sea men themſelves to my apprehenſion, had ſome fear, […]
gloss: To be exposed to harsh (especially cold) weather.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To move noisily and quickly like a storm (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1), usually in a state of anger or uproar.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
examples: She stormed out of the room.
Then the music touch'd the gates and died; / Rose again from where it seem'd to fail, / Storm'd in orbs of song, a growing gale; […]
Storm'd at with shot and shell, / Boldly they rode and well; / Into the jaws of Death, / Into the mouth of Hell, / Rode the six hundred.
A lovely crisp exhaust: a feeling of almost unlimited power combined with complete freedom of running: and, to crown it all, a most melodious and wholly American chime whistle—these were my immediate impressions as we stormed rapidly out of Göttingen, intent on winning back some of the lost time.
gloss: To move quickly in the course of an assault on a fortified position or stronghold, a building, etc.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
figuratively
intransitive
gloss: To be in a violent temper; to use harsh language; to fume, to rage.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
examples: [T]he prieſts of the countrey cluſtering togither, began to grudge and ſtorme againſt Tindall [William Tyndale], rauing againſt him in alehouſes and other places.
VVhy looke you hovv you ſtorme, / I vvould be friends vvith you, and haue your loue, / Forget the ſhames that you haue ſtain'd me vvith, […]
O Father, storm'st thou not / To see us take these wrongs from men?
It often happens, that servants sent on messages are apt to stay out somewhat longer than the message requires, […] when you return, the master storms, the lady scolds; stripping, cudgelling, and turning off is the word. But here you ought to be provided with a set of excuses, enough to serve on all occasions: […]
Bleſs me! ſhe curſes and ſtorms at me like a Trooper, and can hardly keep her Hands off me.
I shall offer to pay him to-morrow; he will rant and storm about his love for you, and there will be an end of the matter.
I know the Pacha's haughty mood / To thee hath never boded good; / And he so often storms at nought, / Allah! forbid that e'er he ought!
I do not want to storm at the man who made her life so burdensome. Too many years have passed for that, nor would Nanny take it kindly if I called her man names.
Derived words: bestorm
barnstorm
outstorm
stormable
stormed
stormer
storm in
storming
storm off
storm out
storm out of the blocks
unstormed
yarnstorm
Translations:
lang: Esperanto
word: ŝtormi
lang: Finnish
word: myrskytä
lang: Ingrian
word: tormiissa
lang: Spanish
word: tempestear
lang: Turkish
word: esmek
lang: Bulgarian
word: щурмува́м
roman: šturmuvám
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 突襲 /突袭
roman: tūxí
lang: Dutch
word: bestormen
lang: Finnish
word: rynnäköidä
lang: French
word: assaillir
lang: French
word: donner l’assaut
lang: German
word: stürmen
lang: Greek
word: εκπορθώ
roman: ekporthó
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἐκπορθέω
roman: ekporthéō
lang: Hebrew
word: הסתער
roman: histaér
lang: Hungarian
word: rohamoz
lang: Italian
word: assaltare
lang: Italian
word: attaccare
lang: Italian
word: prendere d'assalto
lang: Latin
word: assultō
lang: Latin
word: expugnō
lang: Māori
word: pāhoro
lang: Māori
word: taiapu
lang: Polish
word: szturmować
lang: Portuguese
word: assaltar
lang: Romanian
word: asalta
lang: Romanian
word: ataca
lang: Russian
word: штурмова́ть
roman: šturmovátʹ
lang: Slovene
word: napasti
lang: Slovene
word: naskočiti
lang: Spanish
word: irrumpir
lang: Swedish
word: storma
lang: Turkish
word: hücuma kalkmak
lang: Turkish
word: hücum etmek
lang: Ukrainian
word: штурмува́ти
roman: šturmuváty