stormed

verb

past tense of storm
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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2
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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3
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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4
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 The puncher, who was wearing a white shirt and shorts, white socks and black crocs, stormed off and has not been caught. — Rebecca White, New York Daily News, 5 July 2026 All 5-foot-5, 105 pounds of Garrett stormed over to Berkman’s law office. — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 30 June 2026 At the same time, Democratic leaders, backed by a rabble, stormed City Hall and seized control of the local government. — Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 3 July 2026 But Belgium stormed back, stunning Senegal with goals in the 86th and 89th minutes of regulation to knot it up at 2-2. — Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado, Sacbee.com, 1 July 2026 For Webster’s critics, this argument that was made the same year that the Bastille was stormed, was the lexicographical equivalent of Jacobinism. — Literary Hub, 1 July 2026 Trump stormed out of a June 7 interview with current moderator Kristen Welker in Wisconsin. — Jay Stahl, USA Today, 1 July 2026 With Lionel Messi, then 35, defying nature in Tom Brady-like fashion, Argentina stormed to its third World Cup title, which worked in Telemundo’s favor. — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 3 July 2026 In August 2024, TPNPB gunmen stormed a helicopter and killed its New Zealand pilot, Glen Malcolm Conning, who worked for Indonesian aviation company PT Intan Angkasa Air Service. — ABC News, 2 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stormed
  1. raged
  2. rained
  3. attacked
  4. steamed
  5. poured
  6. raided
  7. burned
  8. flooded
Verb
  • Across the continent, schools closed, concerts were canceled, train lines were suspended and wildfires raged.
    — Christopher Cann, USA Today, 2 July 2026
  • 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.
    — Nollyanne Delacruz, Mercury News, 30 June 2026
Definition of raged
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  • Body parts and munitions rained down on.
    — Christopher DeRose, CBS News, 26 June 2026
  • But in the match’s two mandatory hydration breaks, loud boos rained down from the stands.
    — Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 June 2026
Definition of rained
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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.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 3 July 2026
  • 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.
    — Jeramie Bizzle, CBS News, 2 July 2026
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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.
    — Rachel Tashjian, CNN Money, 26 June 2026
  • But don’t miss the crispy duck and walnut, and matsutake steamed chicken at the equally satisfying but more casual Yunnan specialty restaurant, Horizon.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 June 2026
Definition of steamed
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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.
    — Talia Soglin, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2026
  • 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.
    — James Broughel, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026
Definition of poured
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  • The Fulton County Election Hub in Union City was raided by the FBI in January and hundreds of election materials were seized.
    — Irene Wright, USA Today, 7 July 2026
  • Subpoenas were issued June 8, the same day FBI agents raided both men’s houses and the assessor’s office.
    — Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 7 July 2026
Definition of raided
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  • The wildfire had burned across an area of 30,000 acres by Sunday, information from the European Union’s Copernicus satellite mapping agency showed.
    — Elena Becatoros, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2026
  • When the Ku Klux Klan burned crosses on the lawn of other beach neighbors, the only Jewish family in town, my dad tracked down the local Klan leader and told him to back off, or else.
    — Maureen Dowd, Mercury News, 4 July 2026
Definition of burned
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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.
    — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 4 July 2026
  • Social media was flooded with images and footage of guests making the pilgrimage to MSG.
    — Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 4 July 2026
Definition of flooded

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