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storming

storming is the present participle and gerund of storm.

Noun

storming (plural stormings)

  1. The act by which something is stormed.
    • the stormings of cities throughout history
  2. The act of one who storms or rages.
    • He fumed, and threatened, and stormed; but his fumings, and threatenings, and stormings, were powerless to turn from him the keen edge of public ridicule.1840, The Monthly Magazine, Or, British Register

Meaning of storm

Verb

storm (third-person singular simple present storms, present participle storming, simple past and past participle stormed)

  1. (US, impersonal) Preceded by the dummy subject it: to have strong winds and usually lightning and thunder, and/or hail, rain, or snow.
    • It stormed throughout the night.
  2. (transitive) To make (someone or something) stormy; to agitate (someone or something) violently.
    • And dovvne I laid to liſt the ſad tun'd tale, / Ere long eſpied a fickle maid full pale / Tearing of papers breaking rings a tvvaine, / Storming her vvorld vvith ſorrovves, vvind and raine.1609, William Shakespeare, “A Louers Complaint”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC, signature K, verso
  3. (figuratively, transitive) To disturb or trouble (someone).
  4. (figuratively, transitive) To use (harsh language).
  5. (transitive) To violently assault (a fortified position or stronghold, a building, etc.) with the aim of gaining control of it.
    • the storming of the Bastille
    1. (figuratively, often, poetic, transitive) To assault or gain control or power over (someone's heart, mind, etc.).
      • No Engines can a Tyrant find, / to ſtorm the Truth-ſupported Mind, […]1750 March 27 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), Thomas Morell (lyrics), George Frideric Handel (music), Theodora: An Oratorio […], London: […] I. Walsh […], published [1751], →OCLC, page 17

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Forms of storming

pluralstormings

Words formed from storming

Phrases with storming

Words that rhyme with storming

Questions about storming

What does storming mean?
Storming means the act by which something is stormed.
What is storming the present participle and gerund of?
Storming is the present participle and gerund of storm.
What part of speech is storming?
Storming is a noun.
What is the plural of storming?
The plural of storming is stormings.

Words near storming in the dictionary

  1. stormier
  2. stormiest
  3. stormily
  4. storminess
  5. storminesses
  6. storming
  7. storming cats and dogs
  8. storming in
  9. storming off
  10. storming out
  11. storming out of the blocks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: storming (page history and authors); storm (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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