1. Noun
An extensive current of wind, rushing with great velocity and violence, and commonly attended with rain, hail, or snow; a furious storm.
2. Noun
Fig.: Any violent tumult or commotion; as, a political tempest; a tempest of war, or of the passions.
3. Noun
A fashionable assembly; a drum. See the Note under Drum, n., 4.
4. Verb
To disturb as by a tempest.
5. Verb
To storm.
6. Noun
(literary) a violent wind; "a tempest swept over the island"
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