storm

storm
1 noun
1 (C) a period of very bad weather when there is a lot of rain, strong winds, and often lightning: crops damaged by recent heavy storms | the storm broke (=suddenly started)
2 (countable usually singular) a situation in which people suddenly express very strong feelings about something that someone has said or done: The governor found himself at the centre of a political storm. | a storm of protest/abuse/laughter etc: Government plans for hospital closures provoked a storm of protest.
3 take somewhere by storm
a) to be very successful in a particular place: The new show took London by storm.
b) to attack a place using large numbers of soldiers and succeed in getting possession of it
4 a storm in a teacup an unnecessary expression of strong feelings about something that is very unimportant
5 dance/sing/party up a storm AmE to do something with all your energy: They're dancing up a storm in there.
2 verb
1 (T) to suddenly attack and enter a place using a lot of force: An angry crowd stormed the embassy.
2 (intransitive always + adv/prep) to go somewhere in a noisy fast way that shows you are extremely angry
(+ out of/into/off etc): Alan stormed out of the room.
3 (I, T) literary to shout something because you feel extremely angry: “What difference does it make?” she stormed.

Longman dictionary of contemporary English. 2004.

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