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bestorm

bestorm verb: to overtake with a storm; assail with storms.

Verb

bestorm (third-person singular simple present bestorms, present participle bestorming, simple past and past participle bestormed)

  1. (transitive) To overtake with a storm; assail with storms.

bestorm meaning in Bengali

bestorm in Bengali

ঝড় দ্বারা আক্রান্ত হওয়া, ঝড়ের কবলে পড়া

Forms of bestorm

third-person singular presentbestorms
present participlebestorming
past participlebestormed
pastbestormed

Origin of bestorm

From be- + storm. Compare Old English bestyrman (“to agitate”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian bestoarmje (“to storm; besiege”), West Frisian bestoarmje (“to storm; besiege”), Dutch bestormen (“to storm, assault, rush, attack”), German bestürmen (“to storm, besiege, bombard, inundate”), Swedish bestorma (“to besiege, attack, assail”).

Questions about bestorm

What does bestorm mean?
Bestorm means to overtake with a storm; assail with storms.
What is bestorm in Bengali?
Bestorm in Bengali is ঝড় দ্বারা আক্রান্ত হওয়া, ঝড়ের কবলে পড়া. See Bestorm meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is bestorm?
Bestorm is a verb.
What is the past tense of bestorm?
The past tense of bestorm is bestormed.

Words near bestorm in the dictionary

  1. bestock
  2. bestockinged
  3. bestole
  4. bestolen
  5. bestood
  6. bestorm
  7. bestormed
  8. bestorms
  9. bestow
  10. bestow'd
  11. bestowable

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bestorm (page history and authors); bestorm (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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