Synonyms:
cyclone
Meaning: a violent rotating windstorm
Synonyms:
cyclone
Meaning: (meteorology) rapid inward circulation of air masses about a low pressure center; circling counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern
Usage examples
It is as if the storm-clouds within are moving like a whirling cyclone.
Something of the laws of cyclone and anticyclone are known, and rude weather predictions across the Atlantic are roughly possible.
You see it was magic that did it every time 'cept the first, and we can't 'spect a cyclone to happen along and take us to the Emerald City now."
This brought more of the guests to the spot, and you would have laughed could you have seen their faces when first they peered into the kitchen, which looked as if a cyclone had struck it.
Meanwhile, the Major, roaming round the hall like an imprisoned cyclone, had caught sight of and joyfully pounced on the telephone apparatus, and lost no time in ringing up the hunt secretary and announcing his resignation of the Mastership.