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TEMPEST 音标拼音: [t'ɛmpəst] n. 暴风雨,骚乱
vt. 使狂怒,扰乱,使激动 暴风雨,骚乱使狂怒,扰乱,使激动 tempest n 1: a violent commotion or disturbance; " the storms that had characterized their relationship had died away"; " it was only a tempest in a teapot" [ synonym: { storm}, { tempest}] 2: ( literary) a violent wind; " a tempest swept over the island" Tempest \ Tem" pest\, n. [ OF. tempeste, F. temp[^ e] te, ( assumed) LL. tempesta, fr. L. tempestas a portion of time, a season, weather, storm, akin to tempus time. See { Temporal} of time.] 1. An extensive current of wind, rushing with great velocity and violence, and commonly attended with rain, hail, or snow; a furious storm. [ 1913 Webster] [ We] caught in a fiery tempest, shall be hurled, Each on his rock transfixed. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Fig.: Any violent tumult or commotion; as, a political tempest; a tempest of war, or of the passions. [ 1913 Webster] 3. A fashionable assembly; a drum. See the Note under { Drum}, n., 4. [ Archaic] -- Smollett. [ 1913 Webster] Note: Tempest is sometimes used in the formation of self- explaining compounds; as, tempest- beaten, tempest- loving, tempest- tossed, tempest- winged, and the like. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: Storm; agitation; perturbation. See { Storm}. [ 1913 Webster]
Tempest \ Tem" pest\, v. t. [ Cf. OF. tempester, F. temp[^ e] ter to rage.] To disturb as by a tempest. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] Part huge of bulk Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait, Tempest the ocean. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster]
Tempest \ Tem" pest\, v. i. To storm. [ Obs.] -- B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster] 70 Moby Thesaurus words for " tempest": agitation, black squall, blaze, blizzard, blow, brouhaha, burst, chaos, commotion, convulsion, cyclone, dirty weather, disorder, disruption, disturbance, equinoctial, eruption, explosion, ferment, fit, flare- up, foul weather, gale, gust, half a gale, heavy blow, hurly- burly, hurricane, ill wind, irruption, line squall, line storm, outbreak, outburst, paroxysm, perturbation, rainstorm, riot, rough weather, seizure, snowstorm, spasm, squall, squall line, storm, storm wind, stormy weather, stormy winds, strong wind, tempestuous rage, tempestuous wind, thick squall, thundersquall, thunderstorm, tornado, tropical cyclone, tumult, turbulence, typhoon, ugly wind, unrest, upheaval, uproar, violent blow, whirlwind, white squall, whole gale, williwaw, wind- shift line, windstorm
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