Word Finder - stormed

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(with adverbial of direction) To move quickly and noisily like a storm, usually in a state of uproar or anger.

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She stormed out of the room.

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To rage or fume; to be in a violent temper.

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To assault (a stronghold or fortification) with military forces.

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Troops stormed the complex.

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To have the weather be violent, with strong winds and usually rain, thunder, lightning, or snow.

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It stormed throughout the night.

Rhyn stormed out of the bed and breakfast.

She turned and stormed away.

His look was one of frigid anger as he stormed out.

That night it stormed and then turned cold.

She stormed into her room.

Elise turned away and stormed off, supplies in hand.

He immediately took action, and under his direction the bridge at Charleroi was stormed shortly after noon.

When it stormed before my bread was baked, I fixed a few boards over the fire, and sat under them to watch my loaf, and passed some pleasant hours in that way.

Joseph turned on his heels and stormed upstairs.

She stormed out, blood pulsing and headache growing.

He paced around the parking lot for a few minutes cursing the first woman to ever deny him, and then stormed back into the bar, grabbed the red head, forced her to look into his eyes and growled, "You will not scream."

He stormed fortresses with thirty thousand men.

The young man rose and stormed to the library door.

On the 28th of May 1644, however, it was attacked by Prince Rupert and Lord Derby, and stormed with great slaughter.

It was stormed and burnt A.D.

It was stormed and sacked by the Bohemians in 1450, was two-thirds burned down by the Swedes in 1639 during the Thirty Years' War, and suffered afterwards from great conflagrations in 1686 and 1780, being in the latter year almost completely destroyed.

He hung up the phone and stormed out to the hall and donned his winter coat.

When Charles of Bourbon stormed Rome in 1527 Paleario went first to Perugia and then to Siena, where he settled as a teacher.

In 934 it was passed by the German king Henry I., after which it was extended by King Harold Bluetooth (940-986), but was again stormed by the emperor Otto II.

On the 10th of September he stormed Drogheda, and by his order the whole of its 2800 defenders were put to the sword without quarter.

In 210 B.C. this important place, the headquarters and treasure city of the Punic army, was stormed and taken with great slaughter by P. Scipio.

The second and decisive battle was fought upon the Adriatic. The Genoese fleet under Luciano Doria defeated the Venetians off Pola in 1379, and sailed without opposition to Chioggia, which was stormed and taken.

After some six weeks' siege the place was stormed, and its exhausted garrison were killed or enslaved.

When the place was stormed the garrison consisted of two old women and five children who had concealed themselves in caves.

John fortified it against Louis of France in 1216, and during the civil wars it was the scene of much fighting, being stormed by the parliamentary forces in 1644.

The French troops stormed the city on the 2nd of July 1798, and it remained in their hands until the arrival of the British expedition of 1801.

Seven years later it was stormed by Spartacus.

The Russians had not waited for the formal declaration of war; and on the very day that this was notified by the hanging out of the horse-tails before the Seraglio at Constantinople a Russian army under Marshal Munnich stormed the ancient wall that guarded the isthmus of the Crimea.

On the 10th of August 1792, when the populace of Paris stormed the Tuileries and demanded the abolition of the monarchy, the Legislative Assembly decreed the provisional suspension of the king and the convocation of a national convention which should draw up a constitution.

It was stormed by the Romans in 293 B.C., and though it suffered from the wars of the Republican period, it seems to have risen to renewed prosperity under the empire.

His efforts in this capacity failed; but when the city was stormed (70) Titus granted him whatever boon he might ask.

Marcellus, therefore, struck his first blow at Leontini, which was quickly stormed; and the tale of the horrors of the sack was at once carried to Syracuse and roused; the anger of its population, who could not but sympathize with their near neighbours, Greeks like themselves.

Massena swiftly cleared Aspern of the enemy, but at the same time Rosenberg stormed Essling at last.

Well, he stormed at me, as the saying is, stormed and stormed and stormed!

I nearly stormed at Mamma.

Darian jerked the door open and stormed out.

Frustrated, Sofia stormed out of the library.

Joseph stormed by Dean and Fred without a word, but Ginger lingered to finish her cigarette.

Jade stormed out of the study and shoved past two warriors in the hallway.

She stormed out, shaking as much from the day as how much she wanted to stay the minute he touched her.

The fortress was finally stormed on the 6th of April 1812, by the British under Lord Wellington, and carried with terrible loss.

The town with its port stood a long siege against Sulla, but was stormed in 86.

In 1066 it was taken by Harold Hardrada, and in 1068 the men of the north of England, rising under Edgar Aetheling and Earl Waltheof, stormed the castles which William I.

But trench warfare was the order of the day, and the British and French were trying to carry this on without that ample artillery support which is almost indispensable when earthworks have to be stormed under modern tactical conditions.

In 1801 Saud, son of the amir Abdul Aziz, led an expedition to the Euphrates, and on the festival of Bairam, the 10th of April, stormed Kerbela, put the defenders to the sword, destroyed the sacred tomb, scattered the sacred relics and returned laden with the treasures, accumulated during centuries in the sanctuary of the Shia faith.

In vain Savonarola besought them to lay down their arms. When the church was finally stormed Savonarola was seen praying at the altar, and Fra Domenico, armed with an enormous candlestick, guarding him from the blows of the mob.

Ney had allowed the valuable hours to slip away when he could have stormed Quatre Bras with ease and ensured co operation with his master.

Towards the end of the day Colonel Vallin's Hussars stormed the Limale bridge, and a large part of Grouchy's force then promptly gained the left bank.

In 1631 Rothenburg was stormed by Tilly, and the cup of wine presented by the burgomaster, which, according to tradition, saved the town from destruction, is annually commemorated in the play mentioned above.

After a rather ineffective artillery bombardment the Japanese advanced in full force, without hesitation or finesse, and plunging into the river, stormed forward under a heavy fire.