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Synonyms for tornado

Grammar : Noun
Spell : tawr-ney-doh
Phonetic Transcription : tɔrˈneɪ doʊ

Définition of tornado

Origin :
  • 1550s, navigator's word for violent windy thunderstorm in the tropical Atlantic, probably a mangled borrowing from Spanish tronada "thunderstorm," from tronar "to thunder," from Latin tonare "to thunder" (see thunder). Metathesis of -o- and -r- in modern spelling influenced by Spanish tornar "to twist, turn," from Latin tornare "to turn." Meaning "extremely violent whirlwind" is first found 1620s.
  • noun weather event
Example sentences :
  • Yes,” said Mills thoughtfully, “you are not a leaf, you might have been a tornado yourself.
  • Extract from : « The Arrow of Gold » by Joseph Conrad
  • Nothing is said of the occurrence of a tornado in northern Europe, in January, 1686.
  • Extract from : « The Book of the Damned » by Charles Fort
  • As easy to strive with the tornado as with this wind of pain and death!
  • Extract from : « The Long Roll » by Mary Johnston
  • The tornado, overpassing river and plain, burst on the southern hills.
  • Extract from : « The Long Roll » by Mary Johnston
  • It lasted two and a half hours, that tornado, and it never relaxed in intensity.
  • Extract from : « The Long Roll » by Mary Johnston
  • Presently the room has the appearance of having been struck by a tornado.
  • Extract from : « The Book-Hunter at Home » by P. B. M. Allan
  • Anyhow, the inside of a tornado is like a vacuum, the pressure is so low.
  • Extract from : « The Boy with the U. S. Weather Men » by Francis William Rolt-Wheeler
  • What a stunning sound they make, like the roaring of a tornado!
  • Extract from : « The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, May 1844 » by Various
  • Instead of that, it is, if I may so speak, a tornado of ruin and misfortune.
  • Extract from : « My New Curate » by P.A. Sheehan
  • I have dreadful health, which this tornado has not improved.
  • Extract from : « Short Studies on Great Subjects » by James Anthony Froude

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