A violent storm, often of vast extent, characterized by high winds rotating about a calm center of low atmospheric pressure. This cent…
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Violent storm
a violent weather condition with winds 64-72 knots (11 on the Beaufort scale) and precipitation and thunder and lightning
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The forehead or brow, the part of the face above the eyes; sometimes, also, the whole face.
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Weather, Natural hazards.The fluid which we breathe, and which surrounds the earth; the atmosphere. It is invisible, inodorous, insipid, transparent, compressi…
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Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Weather, Natural hazards.To break or burst, with or without entire separation of the parts; as, to crack glass; to crack nuts.
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Weather, Natural hazards.a purified and potent form of cocaine that is smoked rather than snorted; highly addictive
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Weather, Natural hazards.a storm resulting from strong rising air currents; heavy rain or hail along with thunder and lightning
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Weather, Natural hazards.a storm resulting from strong rising air currents; heavy rain or hail along with thunder and lightning
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Weather, Natural hazards.A strong current of air; a wind between a stiff breeze and a hurricane. The most violent gales are called tempests.
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Weather, Natural hazards.a slight wind (usually refreshing); "the breeze was cooled by the lake"; "as he waited he could feel the air on his neck"
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Weather, Natural hazards.A violent storm, characterized by extreme fury and sudden changes of the wind, and generally accompanied by rain, thunder, and lightni…
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Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Weather, Natural hazards.A fall or descent of rain; the water, or amount of water, that falls in rain; as, the average annual rainfall of a region.
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Weather, Natural hazards.A violent disturbance of the atmosphere, attended by wind, rain, snow, hail, or thunder and lightning; hence, often, a heavy fall of r…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Weather, Natural hazards.See Sunn.
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Weather, Natural hazards.The light of the sun.
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Weather, Natural hazards.The light of the sun, or the place where it shines; the direct rays of the sun, the place where they fall, or the warmth and light whi…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Weather, Natural hazards.A storm accompanied with lightning and thunder.
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the atmospheric conditions that comprise the state of the atmosphere in terms of temperature and wind and clouds and precipitation; "t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: violent, weather, condition, winds, 64-72.A shaft or missile intended to be shot from a crossbow or catapult, esp. a short, stout, blunt-headed arrow; a quarrel; an arrow, or t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: violent, weather, condition, winds, 64-72.Freedom from motion, agitation, or disturbance; a cessation or absence of that which causes motion or disturbance, as of winds or wave…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: violent, weather, condition, winds, 64-72.An instrument or apparatus employed in the ancient mysteries to imitate thunder and lightning.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: violent, weather, condition, winds, 64-72.the atmospheric conditions that comprise the state of the atmosphere in terms of temperature and wind and clouds and precipitation; "t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: violent, weather, condition, winds, 64-72.A part of the ocean near the equator, abounding in calms, squalls, and light, baffling winds, which sometimes prevent all progress for…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: violent, weather, condition, winds, 64-72.Full of favor; favoring; manifesting partiality; kind; propitious; friendly.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: violent, weather, condition, winds, 64-72.(of winds or weather) tending to promote or facilitate; "the days were fair and the winds were favorable"
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: violent, weather, condition, winds, 64-72.To flash, as lightning; to lighten; to gleam; to thunder.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: violent, weather, condition, winds, 64-72.A vitrified sand tube produced by the striking of lightning on sand; a lightning tube; also, the portion of rock surface fused by a li…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: violent, weather, condition, winds, 64-72.A figure consisting of a transference of attributes from their proper subjects to other. Thus Virgil says, "dare classibus austros," t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: violent, weather, condition, winds, 64-72.Free from knots; without knots.
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