meaning of tempests
1. An extensive current of wind, rushing with great velocity and violence, and commonly attended with rain, hail, or snow; a furious storm.
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.
4. To disturb as by a tempest.
5. To storm.
6. literary a violent wind; "a tempest swept over the
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Related Words
tempest | tempest-swept | tempest-tossed | tempest-tost | tempestive | tempestivily | tempestuous | tempestuousness |
