storm

a very strong wind that can cause damage, usually with thunder and rain or snow

A heavy fall of precipitation (hail, rain, or snow) or bout of lightning and thunder without strong winds; a hail storm, rainstorm, snowstorm, or thunderstorm.

A disturbed state of the atmosphere between a severe or strong gale and a hurricane on the modern Beaufort scale, with a wind speed of between 89 and 102 kilometres per hour (55–63 miles per hour; 10 on the scale, known as a "storm" or whole gale), or of between 103 and 117 kilometres per hour (64–72 miles per hour; 11 on the scale, known as a "violent storm").

(US, old-fashioned) A period of frosty and/or snowy weather.

Synonym of cyclone (“a weather phenomenon consisting of a system of winds rotating around a centre of low atmospheric pressure”).

(figurative) A violent agitation of human society; a domestic, civil, or political commotion.

(figurative) A heavy expulsion or fall of things (as blows, objects which are thrown, etc.).

(figurative) A violent commotion or outbreak of sounds, speech, thoughts, etc.; also, an outpouring of emotion.

(figurative) Chiefly with a qualifying word: a violent attack of diease, pain, physiological reactions, symptoms, etc.; a paroxysm.

A violent assault on a fortified position or stronghold.

[in the plural] (US, Canada) Ellipsis of storm window (“a second window (originally detachable) attached on the exterior side of a window in climates with harsh winters, to add an insulating layer of still air between the outside and inside”).

(US) Preceded by the dummy subject it: to have strong winds and usually lightning and thunder, and/or hail, rain, or snow.

(figurative) To move noisily and quickly like a storm, usually in a state of anger or uproar.

To violently assault (a fortified position or stronghold, a building, etc.) with the aim of gaining control of it.

To move quickly in the course of an assault on a fortified position or stronghold, a building, etc.

(literary, figurative) To assault or gain control or power over (someone's heart, mind, etc.).

Of the weather: to be violent, with strong winds and usually lightning and thunder, and/or hail, rain, or snow.

(figurative) To use (harsh language).

(figurative) To be in a violent temper; to use harsh language; to fume, to rage.

To make (someone or something) stormy; to agitate (someone or something) violently.

(figurative) To disturb or trouble (someone).

To catch up (on production output) by making frenzied or herculean efforts.

To be exposed to harsh (especially cold) weather.

(dialect, UK) To protect (seed-hay) from stormy weather by putting sheaves of them into small stacks.