storm
Preceded by the dummy subject it: to have strong winds and usually lightning and…Preceded by the dummy subject it: to have strong winds and usually lightning and thunder, and/or hail, rain, or snow.
» After a storm comes a calm.
Nach dem Regen kommt Sonnenschein.
Після грози виходить сонце.
Meaning
13 senses(US, impersonal)Preceded by the dummy subject it: to have strong winds and usually lightning and thunder, and/or hail, rain, or snow.
It stormed throughout the night.
rain, hail, or snow hard and be very windy, often with thunder or lightning
(transitive)To make (someone or something) stormy; to agitate (someone or something) violently.
(figuratively, transitive)To disturb or trouble (someone).
(figuratively, transitive)To use (harsh language).
(transitive)To violently assault (a fortified position or stronghold, a building, etc.) with the aim of gaining control of it.
the storming of the Bastille
Troops stormed the complex.
stürmen
штурмова́тьšturmovátʹ
штурмува́тиšturmuváty
To violently assault (a fortified position or stronghold, a building, etc.) with the aim of gaining control of it.
(figuratively, often, poetic, transitive)To assault or gain control or power over (someone's heart, mind, etc.).
(broadly, especially, transitive)To catch up (on production output) by making frenzied or herculean efforts.
They were storming near the end of the month to salvage some goodwill.
(UK, dialectal, transitive)To protect (seed-hay) from stormy weather by putting sheaves of them into small stacks.
(intransitive)Of the weather: to be violent, with strong winds and usually lightning and thunder, and/or hail, rain, or snow.
(intransitive)To be exposed to harsh (especially cold) weather.
(figuratively, intransitive)To move noisily and quickly like a storm (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1), usually in a state of anger or uproar.
She stormed out of the room.
(broadly, figuratively, intransitive)To move quickly in the course of an assault on a fortified position or stronghold, a building, etc.
Examples
1059 sentencesAfter a storm comes a calm.
Після грози виходить сонце.
deNach dem Regen kommt Sonnenschein.
How long will this storm last?
Скільки триватиме ця буря?
ruСколько продлится эта буря?
This is the calm before the storm.
Це затишшя перед бурею.
ruЭто затишье перед бурей.
deDas ist die Stille vor dem Sturm.
We were late because of the storm.
Ми спізнилися через зливу.
ruМы опоздали из-за шторма.
There is going to be a storm.
Буде буря.
ruБудет буря.
deEs kommt ein Gewitter auf.
Translations
9 languagesBy meaning 1
By meaning 1
By meaning 1
Origin
The verb is derived from Middle English stormen (“of the wind: to blow violently; to causeThe 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).
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Forms
storms, storming, stormed, stormedPhrasal verbs
3 phrasal verbsSynonyms
77 synonymsWord family
11 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A2Weather and nature — Because the lesson uses it
- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
Collocations
12 patterns- of the storm
- by the storm
- during the storm
- the storm hit
- before the storm
- the storm prevented
- a storm is
- the storm lasted
- the storm caused
- be a storm
- in the storm
- storm prevented