单词 | storming |
释义 | stormingn. The action of storm v. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > [noun] outragec1300 outrakea1400 storming1461 outrageousty1485 outraying1487 ruffianry1583 ruffianism1589 thuggery1838 thuggism1859 mayhem1870 hooliganism1898 rough stuff1913 yobbism1969 yobbery1973 the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > discontent or dissatisfaction > state of complaining > [noun] > action of complaining yomeringc1000 grutching?c1225 plainingc1300 complaintc1384 murmurc1385 murmurationc1390 groiningc1405 grudgingc1420 musinga1425 querimonyc1450 storming1461 mutteringc1475 grudge1477 grunching1487 murmuringc1530 muting1542 repining1550 orpingc1598 maundering1611 oggannition1625 jowering1628 remonstrating1647 regrudginga1677 complaining1702 pesting1705 yammering1705 growling1752 pine1804 gruntling1834 bitching1939 griping1945 pissing1947 bitch1975 kitchen-sinking1975 society > armed hostility > attack > [noun] > storming assault1297 fraista1400 expugnationc1540 storm1645 storming1661 1461 Bale's Chron. in Six Town Chron. (1911) 137 The last day of novembr was a marvelous and dredful sturmyng and noys of the comones and of lordes men at Westminster. 1622 J. Taylor Shilling C 5 b Such storming, fretting, fuming. 1661 in Reg. Privy Council Scotl. 3rd Ser. I. 26 Gunnis taken..at the stormeing of Dundy. 1667 J. Caryll Eng. Princess ii. v. 20 Slow Treaties will to stormings him oblige, Who leisure wants to take the Fort by Siege. a1774 W. Whitehead Epist. form Grove 11 For here, for all my master's storming, I'm sure we strangely want reforming. 1913 G. Edmundson Church Rome First Cent. vi. 169 The storming and burning of the Capitol by the foreign mercenaries of Vitellius. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online March 2018). stormingadj. 1. That storms or rages. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > bad weather > [adjective] > stormy > violent or raging sharp1377 sticklec1450 angry1557 storming1557 furious1585 mad1594 rageful1595 angered1603 main1627 tearing1633 irrefrenary1658 the mind > emotion > anger > furious anger > [adjective] reighOE grima1000 vehementa1492 vehement1548 teeth-grinding1642 sulphury1657 tearing1692 Gothic1695 teeth-gnashinga1711 storming1905 1557 Earl of Surrey et al. Songes & Sonettes (new ed.) f. 95v And all my storming dayes be past, and weather waxeth faire. 1591 E. Spenser Ruines of Time in Complaints 404 Wise words..Recorded by the Muses, liue for ay; Ne may with storming showers be washt away. 1619 A. Newman Pleasures Vision 10 Blowne and tost, like ships in storming wind. 1622 J. Taylor Farewell to Tower-bottles A 4 b Showring hayleshot, from the storming heau'n. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. v. v. 323 A dumb inarticulately storming Whirlwind of things. 1852 Ld. Tennyson Ode Wellington 155 Thank Him who isled us here, and roughly set His Briton in blown seas and storming showers. 1905 Daily Chron. 14 July 3/1 The learned doctor is in a storming fury. 2. That attacks in order to take by storm; chiefly in storming party. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > attack > [adjective] > storming expugnative1615 storming1802 1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. Storming Party, a select body of men, consisting generally of the grenadiers, who first enter the breach, &c. 1829 J. Shipp Mem. Mil. Career II. 185 The storming parties were ordered to be in readiness about two o'clock. 1864 W. W. Skeat tr. J. L. Uhland Songs & Ballads 69 The storming hosts rush on. 1894 Ld. Wolseley Life Marlborough II. lxv. 195 The ecstasy of reckless daring which takes possession of the soldier in a storming party. 1894 R. D. Blackmore Perlycross I. xi. 152 Three old Officers..brave men as ever led a storming column. Derivatives ˈstormingly adv. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > furious anger > [adverb] woodlyc1000 wood1297 eagerlyc1300 rowc1325 bremelya1375 grindellyc1400 raselya1450 furiously1555 storminglya1600 bouncing mad1834 ragingly1840 stormily1860 ragefully1865 infuriately1879 lividly1890 a1600 Hooker Wks. (1888) II. 593 But there are, whose stubborn spirits will..hereupon stormingly reply. Draft additions 1993 slang (chiefly in Sport). Displaying outstanding vigour, speed, or skill. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > player or sportsperson > [adjective] > by ability strongOE scrub1867 all-star1889 stiff1890 first string1892 plus1906 match-winning1908 all-time1910 seeded1922 front line1939 sharpshooting1948 world-class1950 uncapped1955 storming1961 1961 Boxing News 20 Oct. 11/2 The Filipino tried hard to put in a storming finish. 1972 Times 13 Sept. 9/6 To score by a neck from Day Two, who came with a storming run in the last 100yds. 1987 Kart & Superkart Oct. 8/3 From pole position he failed to get away at the change of lights but then proceeded to give a storming display to take the lead..on lap six. Draft additions January 2011 colloquial (chiefly British). Great, excellent, marvellous.In quot. 1920 with allusion to an actual storm (cf. sense 1). ΚΠ 1920 Lowell (Mass.) Sun 6 Feb. 2/1 (advt.) Worst storm in years. We want to do our regular business this week end. We can't give you any delivery service, But we will pay your car fare both ways on every $3.00 purchase or over. Storming prices, too. 1982 Melody Maker 8 May 14/3 He felt frustrated at the fate of some potentially storming songs. 1996 Daily Tel. 9 Nov. (Young Tel. section) 15/1 Mum, Dad and Claire wish Christopher Yat a storming day tomorrow as he celebrates the big 7. 1997 H. H. Tan Foreign Bodies (2000) xii. 106 My grades are absolutely storming at the moment, so I can get away with anything. 2008 Independent (Nexis) 8 May (Extra section) 24 This audio version of Peace's storming book is made all the better by its excellent narration. Draft additions January 2011 colloquial. As an intensifier: very, extremely.Used esp. with adjectives denoting anger or approval; cf. sense 1 and Additions. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > very tooc888 swith971 wellOE wellOE fullOE rightc1175 muchc1225 wellac1275 gainlya1375 endlyc1440 hard?1440 very1448 odda1500 great1535 jolly1549 fellc1600 veryvery1649 gooda1655 vastly1664 strange1667 bloody1676 ever so1686 heartily1727 real1771 precious1775 quarely1805 murry1818 très1819 freely1820 powerfula1822 gurt1824 almighty1830 heap1832 all-fired1833 gradely1850 real1856 bonny1857 heavens1858 veddy1859 canny1867 some1867 oh-so1881 storming1883 spanking1886 socking1896 hefty1898 velly1898 fair dinkum1904 plurry1907 Pygmalion1914 dinkum1915 beaucoup1918 dirty1920 molto1923 snorting1924 honking1929 hellishing1931 thumpingly1948 way1965 mega1966 mondo1968 seriously1970 totally1972 mucho1978 stonking1990 the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > extremely or exceedingly swithlyc888 micklelyeOE swith971 hardOE un-i-fohOE sevenfoldlOE unmeet?c1225 innerlyc1330 horribly1340 too1340 sore1474 horriblec1475 vehemently1483 outrageous1487 done?a1513 exquisite1529 strangely1532 exceeding1535 exceedingly1535 angardlyc1540 angerlyc1540 choicec1540 vengeable1542 vengeably?1550 extremelya1554 monstrous1569 thrice1579 amain1587 extremea1591 damnably1598 fellc1600 tyrannically1602 exquisitely1603 damnedly1607 preciously1607 damnablea1616 impensively1620 excellingly1621 main1632 fearful1634 vengeancelya1640 upsy1650 impensely1657 twadding1657 vastly1664 hideous1667 mainly1670 consumed1707 consumedly1707 outrageously1749 damned1757 nation1771 shockingly1777 deuced1779 darn1789 darned1807 felly1807 varsal1814 awful1816 awfy1816 frightfully1816 deucedly1819 dogged1819 awfully1820 gallowsa1823 shocking1831 tremendously1832 everlasting1833 terribly1833 fearfully1835 ripping1838 poison1840 thundering1853 frighteninglyc1854 raring1854 hell's own1863 goldarned1866 goddamned1870 doggone1871 acutely1872 whooping1874 stupidly1878 everlastingly1879 hideously1882 densely1883 storming1883 good and1885 thunderingly1885 crazy1887 tremendous1887 madly1888 goldarn1892 howling1895 murderously1916 rasted1919 goddam1921 bitchingly1923 Christly1923 bitching1929 falling-down1930 lousy1932 appallingly1937 stratospherically1941 Christ almighty1945 effing1945 focking1956 dagnab1961 drop-dead1980 hella1987 totes2006 1883 Hist. Johnson County, Iowa vi. 433 He got furious, storming angry, and left the room in a rage. 1889 Horse & Hound 7 Oct. 623/2 Tyrone and Tralee are a storming good pair of bay geldings. a1912 W. E. Hatcher Let. in E. B. Hatcher W. E. Hatcher (1915) 413 She is a storming fine girl. 1937 Chicago Tribune 13 Nov. 19/3 He's storming mad. The team he has coached since the beginning of the season already has lost four conference games in a row. 1999 Out Oct. 100 A storming good read, and Arnott's evocation of gangland London..is flawless. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1461adj.1557 |
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