tempest
IPA: tˈɛmpʌst
noun
- A storm, especially one with severe winds.
- Any violent tumult or commotion.
- (obsolete) A fashionable social gathering; a drum.
- A surname transferred from the nickname.
verb
- (intransitive, rare) To storm.
- (transitive, chiefly poetic) To disturb, as by a tempest.
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Examples of "tempest" in Sentences
- The tempest blew the town.
- Tempest blows cold in bard double.
- Ottawa digs out after tempest sweeps.
- The tempest was formed from the ocean.
- This is the fifth tempest in the region.
- The weatherman announced the upcoming tempest.
- This osteopath thing is a tempest in a teapot.
- Tempest is equivalent to the bombing of Hiroshima.
- It was weathered by the tempest and went on to success.
- Once again, there's a tempest brewing in the national tea pot.
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