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n. A violent windstorm, frequently accompanied by rain, snow, or hail.

n. Furious agitation, commotion, or tumult; an uproar: "The tempest in my mind/Doth from my senses take all feeling” ( Shakespeare).

v. To cause a tempest around or in.

idiom. teacup A great disturbance or uproar over a matter of little or no importance.

n. A storm, especially one with severe winds.

n. Any violent tumult or commotion.

v. To storm.

v. To disturb, as by a tempest.

n. An extensive current of wind, rushing with great velocity and violence, and commonly attended with rain, hail, or snow; a furious storm.

n. Fig.: Any violent tumult or commotion.

n. A fashionable assembly; a drum. See the Note under Drum, n., 4.

v. To disturb as by a tempest.

verb-intransitive. To storm.

n. A very violent storm; an extensive current of wind, rushing with great velocity and violence, and commonly attended with rain, hail, or snow; a furious gale; a hurricane.

n. A violent tumult or commotion; perturbation; violent agitation: as, a tempest of the passions; a popular or political tempest.

To disturb violently, as by a tempest; rouse; throw into a state of commotion; agitate.

To descend as a tempest; be tempestuous; storm.

n. (literary) a violent wind

n. a violent commotion or disturbance

"So, in that sense, the tempest is a manufactured one, not the split."

tempested    tempesting    tempests   

windstorm    disturbance    commotion    hoo-hah    flutter    kerfuffle    hoo-ha    hurly-burly    disruption    to-do   

a tempest in a tea-pot   

tempestuous    tempest in a teapot   

drum   

perturbation    agitation    storm    commotion   

storm    hurricane    tumult    gale    torrent    whirlwind    earthquake    thunder    uproar    gust