STORMING Synonyms: 155 Similar and Opposite Words

storming

verb

present participle of storm

as in raging

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 raining

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 attacking

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 steaming

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 storming For all the prior cinematic depictions of storming bunkers and camaraderie under fire, Pressure offers us the quiet heroism of rational restraint in the figure of James Stagg, who weathered his inner storms and bore the courage to be disliked. —

Daniel Jonah Wolpert, NPR, 29 May 2026 This revolutionary fervor culminated in both Fidel and Raúl, with roughly 140 rebel revolutionaries in tow, storming Cuba’s second-largest military installation, the Moncada Barracks, in July 1953. —

Drew Pittock, USA Today, 20 May 2026 Social Media Users Say Clavicular Was ‘Mogged’ After Clavicular went viral for storming out of a 60 Minutes interview, social media commentators joked that the looksmaxxer had been mogged by Adam Hegarty, an Australian journalist who has, presumably, never taken a hammer to his face. —

Dani Di Placido, Forbes.com, 17 May 2026 Preston Niland was killed after storming Utah Beach and stopping to aid a wounded soldier. —

Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 May 2026 Johnson died on June 10, 1946, in an auto crash in North Carolina, after storming out of a diner where he’d been asked to sit in a rear section reserved for Blacks. —

Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 13 May 2026 He is accused of storming a security checkpoint at the dinner last month, leading to multiple shots being fired before he was apprehended. —

Ted Johnson, Deadline, 11 May 2026 According to forecasters at the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center, geomagnetic conditions are expected to hover between quiet and active levels as the effects of earlier coronal mass ejections slowly fade, with isolated G1-class storming still possible. —

Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 6 May 2026 Video shows the military storming into the village and furious mourners throwing stones at the vehicles. —

Molly Hunter, NBC news, 2 May 2026

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The show follows a group of people who spend every summer weekend together in one giant house in the Hamptons, drinking and making out and raging.

— Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 10 June 2026
These raging political debates help explain why the few hundred students who arrive at UC San Diego or UC Berkeley each year in need of remedial math instruction attract outsize attention.

— Idrees Kahloon, The Atlantic, 9 June 2026