Tempest — Defs

01 n. An extensive current of wind, rushing with great velocity and violence, and commonly attended with rain, hail, or snow; a furious storm.

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An extensive current of wind, rushing with great velocity and violence, and commonly attended with rain, hail, or snow; a furious storm.
“[We] caught in a fiery tempest, shall be hurled, Each on his rock transfixed.” — Milton.
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.[Archaic] See: Drum

Syn. Storm; agitation; perturbation. See Storm.

02 v. t. To disturb as by a tempest.

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To disturb as by a tempest.[Obs.]
“Part huge of bulk Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait, Tempest the ocean.” — Milton.

03 v. i. To storm.