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WINDSTORM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A storm consisting of violent winds
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("windstorm" is a kind of...):
storm; violent storm (a violent weather condition with winds 64-72 knots (11 on the Beaufort scale) and precipitation and thunder and lightning)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "windstorm"):
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)
