1
as in raged
to express one's anger usually violently
the chef spent the morning storming at his staff about the ruined sauces
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as in rained
to fall as water in a continuous stream of drops from the clouds
it storms so frequently up in the mountains that the peaks are rarely visible from the valley below
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as in attacked
to take sudden, violent action against
the pirates stormed the ship, easily taking the whole crew as their prisoners
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as in steamed
to be excited or emotionally stirred up with anger
by the time we arrived, our hostess was storming because dinner was ruined
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Recent Examples of stormed
When Daemon stormed into his dining room to seize Harrenhal under Rhaenyra’s name, Ser Simon was super polite about the whole thing.
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Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
29 June 2026
The Young Lords, a group of Puerto Rican activists, stormed and occupied the Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx, New York, for 12 hours.
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USA Today,
29 June 2026
Witnesses told the court that, on July 30, 2025, Buck-Hayes stormed into Vogler's Danville office and doused him with gasoline before chasing him out of the building and setting him on fire, according to Cardinal News.
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James Cirrone,
FOXNews.com,
27 June 2026
Gunther took out Sami Zayn after a delay, but Sami stormed back into the match and hammered Gunther with punches.
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Alfred Konuwa,
Forbes.com,
27 June 2026
Security measures have increased since thousands of fans, many of whom were rooting for Colombia in a match against Argentina, stormed the gates, overwhelmed security and overtook the stadium without tickets.
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Amaia Gavica,
Miami Herald,
26 June 2026
During the June 2024 protests, thousands of young Kenyans stormed the parliament building, urging legislators to vote against a finance bill that had proposed an increase in taxes despite the rising cost of living.
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ABC News,
25 June 2026
The penalties look even more draconian when compared with those for people who stormed the Capitol on January 6.
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David A. Graham,
The Atlantic,
25 June 2026
Center talent and depth was undeniably one of the reasons Colorado stormed through the regular season as the league’s top team and breezed by Los Angeles and Minnesota in the first two rounds of the playoffs.
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Corey Masisak,
Denver Post,
18 June 2026
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
29 June 2026
The Young Lords, a group of Puerto Rican activists, stormed and occupied the Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx, New York, for 12 hours.
—
USA Today,
29 June 2026
Witnesses told the court that, on July 30, 2025, Buck-Hayes stormed into Vogler's Danville office and doused him with gasoline before chasing him out of the building and setting him on fire, according to Cardinal News.
—
James Cirrone,
FOXNews.com,
27 June 2026
Gunther took out Sami Zayn after a delay, but Sami stormed back into the match and hammered Gunther with punches.
—
Alfred Konuwa,
Forbes.com,
27 June 2026
Security measures have increased since thousands of fans, many of whom were rooting for Colombia in a match against Argentina, stormed the gates, overwhelmed security and overtook the stadium without tickets.
—
Amaia Gavica,
Miami Herald,
26 June 2026
During the June 2024 protests, thousands of young Kenyans stormed the parliament building, urging legislators to vote against a finance bill that had proposed an increase in taxes despite the rising cost of living.
—
ABC News,
25 June 2026
The penalties look even more draconian when compared with those for people who stormed the Capitol on January 6.
—
David A. Graham,
The Atlantic,
25 June 2026
Center talent and depth was undeniably one of the reasons Colorado stormed through the regular season as the league’s top team and breezed by Los Angeles and Minnesota in the first two rounds of the playoffs.
—
Corey Masisak,
Denver Post,
18 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stormed
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Across the continent, schools closed, concerts were canceled, train lines were suspended and wildfires raged.
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Cameron came up with the idea during the pandemic, as protests over the murder of George Floyd spread across the country and wildfires raged across Northern California.
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Body parts and munitions rained down on.
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But in the match’s two mandatory hydration breaks, loud boos rained down from the stands.
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Police said former professional soccer player Badea and another man attacked Zeraati before fleeing in a getaway car driven by Stana and then flying out of the country from Heathrow Airport.
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The three men who attacked our CBS News Chicago crew near Adler Planetarium before pointing a gun at people in Brighton Park on Monday afternoon have been charged.
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The French capital is in the midst of a heat wave — the day of the show was the city’s hottest ever June day, until Wednesday eclipsed it — and the model’s toes steamed inside the oblong footwear.
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But don’t miss the crispy duck and walnut, and matsutake steamed chicken at the equally satisfying but more casual Yunnan specialty restaurant, Horizon.
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Local 150’s president chairs political committees that have poured money into the campaign of Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias, a likely 2027 mayoral challenger.
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Long before venture capital poured money into AI, decades of federal research also helped build the computing and machine-learning advances that made these systems possible.
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Kerr’s home in Florida was raided by the FBI on the same day.
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Emilee Hackney is an eighth-generation Appalachian who grew up in the coalfields of southwest Virginia in a family so impoverished her parents occasionally raided her and her brother’s piggy banks to pay the mortgage and buy groceries.
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The Cottonwood Fire had burned nearly 72,000 acres and is at 0% containment.
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Idling trucks, sandbag piles and large metal trailers stationed around a massive cold storage facility that burned for days in Boyle Heights signaled that the work to clean up millions of pounds of spoiled food and burned debris had begun Friday morning.
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Through the risk of lightning, sticky humidity and a winding line filled with thousands of chanting fans, Argentine fans flooded Bayfront Park with a sea of blue jerseys.
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Social media was flooded with images and footage of guests making the pilgrimage to MSG.
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“Stormed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stormed. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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