STORMED Synonyms: 157 Similar and Opposite Words

stormed

verb

Definition of stormed next

past tense of storm

as in raged

to express one's anger usually violently the chef spent the morning storming at his staff about the ruined sauces

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as in rained

to fall as water in a continuous stream of drops from the clouds it storms so frequently up in the mountains that the peaks are rarely visible from the valley below

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as in attacked

to take sudden, violent action against the pirates stormed the ship, easily taking the whole crew as their prisoners

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as in steamed

to be excited or emotionally stirred up with anger by the time we arrived, our hostess was storming because dinner was ruined

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Recent Examples of stormed Activists said Israeli forces stormed their vessels, smashed engines and detained some of those aboard. —

Melanie Lidman, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2026 Shea Theodore had a goal and an assist and Brayden McNabb scored a short-handed goal as the Golden Knights stormed to a 5-0 lead after two periods, silencing a sellout crowd in Orange County and erasing memories of their rough offensive outing in Game 2. —

ABC News, 9 May 2026 Each time Tyler stormed off, Darryl coaxed him back for another game before beating him yet again. —

New York Daily News, 9 May 2026 During the trial, which kicked off in March, Moïse’s widow, Martine, delivered harrowing testimony about the night roughly two dozen foreign mercenaries, mostly Colombians, stormed their home near Port-au-Prince. —

Alexandra Koch, FOXNews.com, 8 May 2026 In May 2025, ICE agents stormed a South Park restaurant, threw the owner against the wall, handcuffed every employee and deployed flash bangs on concerned neighbors outside — all to arrest four undocumented kitchen workers. —

Lucas Robinson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2026 At a news conference held by immigrants' rights organizations on May 5, four crew members from a Holland America Line ship were also recently detained by agents, just two days after the Disney ship was stormed, according to KPBS. —

Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 7 May 2026 On Wednesday, dissident artists Pussy Riot stormed the Russian pavilion while waving Ukrainian flags and calling for disobedience. —

News Desk, Artforum, 6 May 2026 Arcángel Pretel Ortiz and Antonio Intriago, the owners of Counter Terrorist Federal Academy and Counter Terrorist Unit Security, collectively known as CTU, are accused of hiring the squad of former Colombian soldiers who stormed the president’s home. —

Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 5 May 2026

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Homicides increased in 2019 and again in 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic raged and cities across the country saw similar spikes, but declined each of the next four years, the data show.

— Hailey Wang, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2026
For a long time the war that raged inside my soul was all of my intellectual hatred of religion versus the religious art that deeply moved me, especially music.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 7 May 2026