Definition of "tempest" []

• A violent windstorm, frequently accompanied by rain, snow, or hail. (noun)
• Furious agitation, commotion, or tumult; an uproar: "The tempest in my mind/Doth from my senses take all feeling” ( Shakespeare). (noun)
• To cause a tempest around or in. (verb-transitive)
• Teacup A great disturbance or uproar over a matter of little or no importance. (idiom)

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• "So, in that sense, the tempest is a manufactured one, not the split."
• "And what wonderful melodies did she play on it when the winds of heaven blew about her and the mountain tempest thundered and the great stars stayed to listen?"
• "Continually the tempest is shot through with the leaping lightning and crashing thunder, like steady cannonading, echoing and reechoing, roaring through the vast empty spaces of the heavens."