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say it: stawrm
storm is a verb and noun meaning "behave violently, as if in state of a great anger". It carries 8 recorded senses.
rain, hail, or snow hard and be very windy, often with thunder or lightning
“If it storms, we'll need shelter”
a violent weather condition with winds 64-72 knots (11 on the Beaufort scale) and precipitation and thunder and lightning
a violent commotion or disturbance
“the storms that had characterized their relationship had died away”
“it was only a tempest in a teapot”
a direct and violent assault on a stronghold
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for storm come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.