taking by storm

Verb

take by storm (third-person singular simple present takes by storm, present participle taking by storm, simple past took by storm, past participle taken by storm)

1. (transitive) To capture by means of a sudden, overwhelming attack.
   • The soldiers took the castle by storm.
2. (idiomatic, transitive) To seize, overpower, or captivate in a sudden and forceful manner.
   • [A] startling interruption occurred at that moment, which took their whole attention by storm.1841, Charles Dickens, chapter 71, in Barnaby Rudge
3. (idiomatic, transitive) To rapidly gain great popularity in (a place).
   • This obscure reference ["Blind Tom"] applies to a blind negro musician who took the world by storm in the latter half of the nineteenth century.1908 February 19, Jack London, chapter 1, in The Iron Heel, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC