Storming

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Storming \Storm"ing\,
     a. & n. from {Storm}, v.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     {Storming party} (Mil.), a party assigned to the duty of
        making the first assault in storming a fortress.


        [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Storm \Storm\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stormed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Storming}.] (Mil.)
     To assault; to attack, and attempt to take, by scaling walls,
     forcing gates, breaches, or the like; as, to storm a
     fortified town.
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From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  93 Moby Thesaurus words for "storming":
     abandoned, amok, anarchic, angry, bellowing, berserk, blustering,
     blusterous, blustery, boisterous, bullying, carried away, chaotic,
     cloudy, cyclonic, delirious, demoniac, dirty, distracted, ecstatic,
     enraged, enraptured, feral, ferocious, fierce, fighting mad, foul,
     frantic, frenzied, fulminating, fuming, furious, haggard,
     hectoring, hellish, hog-wild, hopping mad, howling, hysterical,
     in a rage, in a transport, in hysterics, infuriate, infuriated,
     insensate, intoxicated, mad, madding, maniac, mindless, noisy,
     orgasmic, orgastic, orgiastic, pandemoniac, possessed, rabid,
     raging, rainy, ramping, ranting, ravening, raving, raving mad,
     ravished, rip-roaring, roaring, roaring mad, roistering,
     roisterous, rollicking, running mad, savage, storm, stormy,
     swaggering, swashbuckling, swashing, taking by storm, tempestuous,
     tornadic, transported, troublous, tumultuous, turbulent, typhonic,
     typhoonish, uncontrollable, uproarious, violent, wild, wild-eyed,
     wild-looking