| NOUN | phenomenon | windstorm | a storm consisting of violent winds |
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| Sounds | wih'ndstao.rm | |
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| Rhymes | barnstorm ... warm: 29 rhymes with aorm... | |
| Meaning | A storm consisting of violent winds. | |
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| Narrower | cyclone | A violent rotating windstorm |
| dust storm, duster, sandstorm, sirocco | A windstorm that lifts up clouds of dust or sand | |
| tempest | (literary) a violent wind | |
| whirlwind | A more or less vertical column of air whirling around itself as it moves over the surface of the Earth | |
| Broader | storm, violent storm | A violent weather condition with winds 64-72 knots (11 on the Beaufort scale) and precipitation and thunder and lightning |
| Spanish | vendaval | |
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