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Antonyms for storming

Grammar : Verb
Spell : stawrm
Phonetic Transcription : stɔrm

Definition of storming

Origin :
  • Old English storm, from Proto-Germanic *sturmaz (cf. Old Norse stormr, Old Saxon, Middle Low German, Middle Dutch, Dutch storm, Old High German and German sturm). Old French estour "onset, tumult," Italian stormo are Germanic loan-words. Figurative (non-meteorological) sense was in late Old English.
  • Storm-door first recorded 1878; storm-water is from 1879; storm-window is attested from 1824. Storm surge attested from 1929.
  • verb attack, rush
Example sentences :
  • What storming of fortresses, built all of massive snowblocks!
  • Extract from : « Snow Flakes (From "Twice Told Tales") » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • He relieved his feelings by storming at the hospital steward who was assisting him.
  • Extract from : « The Downfall » by Emile Zola
  • Wasps we knew well and disdained, storming them in their fastnesses.
  • Extract from : « The Golden Age » by Kenneth Grahame
  • It was storming, but it was not dark, and they knew each foot of the way.
  • Extract from : « A Woman who went to Alaska » by May Kellogg Sullivan
  • Richmond knew better, but Richmond was stoically calm as to the possibility of a storming.
  • Extract from : « The Long Roll » by Mary Johnston
  • The mob was beginning to gather for the storming of the sod-house.
  • Extract from : « Oh, You Tex! » by William Macleod Raine
  • Such was the end of the attempt at storming Syracuse by sea.
  • Extract from : « The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume I (of X) - Greece » by Various
  • Besides, you can't do anything by storming up to that poor girl.
  • Extract from : « Wayside Courtships » by Hamlin Garland
  • History may well say, ‘the storming of a fortress is an awful task.’
  • Extract from : « General Gordon » by J. Wardle
  • I don't think he was on the level with all that storming and raging.
  • Extract from : « The Winning Clue » by James Hay, Jr.

Synonyms for storming

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