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stormtost

stormtost is the archaic spelling of stormtossed.

Meaning of stormtossed

Adjective

stormtossed (comparative more stormtossed, superlative most stormtossed)

  1. Tossed by the wind in a storm.
    • The stormtossed ocean waves beat against the side of the ship and washed over its deck.
  2. (figuratively) Agitated by conflicting passions.
    • The fever left his body, and he rose to stotter about the doors; but he was still in his torments, and the mercy-seat was far from him. At last in the back end of the year came Mungo Muirhead to Caulds to the autumn communion, and nothing would serve him but he must try his hand at the storm-tossed...1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide

Forms of stormtost

comparativemore stormtost
superlativemost stormtost

Origin of stormtost

From storm + tost.

Questions about stormtost

What is stormtost the archaic spelling of?
Stormtost is the archaic spelling of stormtossed.

Words near stormtost in the dictionary

  1. stormstayed
  2. stormswept
  3. stormtide
  4. stormtides
  5. stormtossed
  6. stormtost
  7. stormtrack
  8. stormtracks
  9. stormtroop
  10. stormtrooper
  11. stormtroopers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stormtost (page history and authors); stormtossed (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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