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单词 simoom
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Definition of simoom in English:

simoom

(also simoon)
nounsɪˈmuːmsəˈmum
  • A hot, dry, dust-laden wind blowing in the desert, especially in Arabia.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It is subject to constant dust-laden winds variously known as sirocco, khamsin, simoom and harmattan.
    • And then slowly, implacably, the weather changed, the desert began its insidious creep, the simoon started to scour the land and the hills with its harsh dragon's breath.
    • Does he expect the Bedouins led by Rudolph Valentino to come sweeping like the simoom out of the desert?
    • It is of old a native of the East, sister of the tornado, the earthquake, and the simoom.
    • From this soil sprouts stately guitar arpeggios and hesitant piano refrains that occasionally meet billowing dark ambient winds and shrivel up like a flower of the desert that senses a simoon coming from afar.

Origin

Late 18th century: from Arabic samūm, from samma 'to poison'.

 
 

Definition of simoom in US English:

simoom

(also simoon)
nounsəˈmo͞omsəˈmum
  • A hot, dry, dust-laden wind blowing in the desert, especially in Arabia.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • And then slowly, implacably, the weather changed, the desert began its insidious creep, the simoon started to scour the land and the hills with its harsh dragon's breath.
    • Does he expect the Bedouins led by Rudolph Valentino to come sweeping like the simoom out of the desert?
    • It is of old a native of the East, sister of the tornado, the earthquake, and the simoom.
    • From this soil sprouts stately guitar arpeggios and hesitant piano refrains that occasionally meet billowing dark ambient winds and shrivel up like a flower of the desert that senses a simoon coming from afar.
    • It is subject to constant dust-laden winds variously known as sirocco, khamsin, simoom and harmattan.

Origin

Late 18th century: from Arabic samūm, from samma ‘to poison’.

 
 
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