supertempest

noun

supertempest

noun

Etymology From super- + tempest.

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Rare A very severe tempest.

  • There would still be tough times ahead for the Fanshawes. But Cape Talisman's supertempest had had a silver lining tucked away after all.1907, Jonathan Stagge, The Scarlet Circle, Crime Clud, page 218:
  • A standard Venus supertempest was on when we got there.1969, George P. Elliott, An Hour of Last Things and Other Stories, Gollancz, →ISBN, page 121:
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  • We moved to this barrier island with our eyes open. The bad news was that it lies smack in the storm belt where a hurricane can be expected every four to five years and a supertempest takes aim ever televe years or so.2004, Life on Matagorda Island, Texas A & M University Press, →ISBN, page 19:

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