Hurricane

Noun

 * 1) A severe tropical cyclone in the North Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, or in the eastern North Pacific off the west coast of Mexico, with winds of 75 miles per hour (120.7 kph) or greater accompanied by rain, lightning, and thunder that sometimes moves into temperate latitudes.
 * 2)  a wind scale for quite strong wind, stronger than a storm

Coordinate terms

 * cyclone, tropical storm, typhoon
 * breeze, gale, storm

Noun

 * 1)  "full&mdash;triple-full&mdash;full" – an acrobatic maneuver consisting of three flips and five twists, with one twist on the first flip, three twists on the second flip, one twist on the third flip

Adjectives for Hurricane
untamed; furious; aimless; tempestuous; lightning.

Verbs for Hurricane
cast away by—; dread—; encounter—; perish in—; report—; wallow in—; —bedevils; —breaks; —bursts; —ceases; —confuses; — destroys; —devastates; —falls upon; —overthrows; —persecutes; —rages; —ravages; —rends; —riots; —shrieks; —sweeps; —takes toll; —violates; —whirls.

Synonyms for Hurricane
storm, gale, tempest, cyclone, typhoon, whirlwind, sirocco, blizzard.

Antonyms for Hurricane
calm, peace, doldrum.

Related terms

 * rudy, randy, daffy, full, double-full, triple-full, lay, back, slap-back, stretch

Thesaurus
black squall, blaze, blizzard, blow, burst, convulsion, cyclone, dirty weather, equinoctial, eruption, explosion, fit, flare-up, foul weather, gale, gust, half a gale, heavy blow, ill wind, irruption, line squall, line storm, outbreak, outburst, paroxysm, rainstorm, rough weather, seizure, snowstorm, spasm, squall, squall line, storm, storm wind, stormy weather, stormy winds, strong wind, tempest, tempestuous rage, tempestuous wind, thick squall, thundersquall, thunderstorm, tornado, tropical cyclone, twister, typhoon, ugly wind, upheaval, violent blow, whirlwind, white squall, whole gale, williwaw, wind-shift line, windstorm

Etymology 1
From huracán:, ultimately from the name of the  storm god Juracán whom the Taínos believed dwelled on El Yunque mountain and, when he was upset, sent the strong winds and rain upon them.

Etymology 2
Coined by Jeret Peterson

Noun

 * Afrikaans:
 * Arabic: (záwbaʕa šadīda)
 * Armenian:, ,
 * Bosnian: ,
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: huracà
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Croatian:
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 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Georgian: ქარიშხალი, ურაგანი
 * German: ,
 * Greek: ανεμοστρόβιλος (anemostróstrovilos), κυκλώνας (kyklónas)
 * Greenlandic: anoraarsuaq
 * Hindi: अंधड़ (a.ndha.d)
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 暴風;  暴風雨;


 * Korean: 허리케인
 * Latvian: viesulis
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: ураган
 * Norwegian:
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 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi: ਤੂਫ਼ਾਨ (tūfān)
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: doineann, saighnean
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: оркан, ураган
 * Roman: orkan, uragan
 * Sotho: sefefo
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tamil: புயல்
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: ураган
 * Welsh: gyrwynt, corwynt


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 * Japanese: 大暴風
 * Swahili:

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