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firestorm
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A firestorm is a conflagration which attains such intensity that it creates and sustains its own wind system. It is most commonly a natural phenomenon, created during some of the largest bushfires and wildfires . Although the word has been used to describe ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A fire whose intensity is greatly increased by inrushing winds. 2 An intense or violent response.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Its rocks are filled with ancient charcoal, the remnant of a forgotten firestorm . ▪ Protected by his enchanted armour Aenarion stood unscathed at the centre of the firestorm . ▪ Public disclosure of the conference call has sparked ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also fire-storm , 1580s, in poetry, from fire (n.) + storm (n.). From 1945 in reality, in reference to nuclear war.
Usage examples of firestorm.
Also by Keith Douglass THE CARRIER SERIES: Carrier Viper Strike Armageddon Mode Flame-Out Maelstrom Countdown Afterburn Alpha Strike Arctic Fire Arsenal THE SEAL TEAM SEVEN SERIES: SEAL Team Seven Specter Nucflash Direct Action Firestorm Battleground To my good friend, writing critic, and advisor in all things Navy, Cyndy Mobley.
There were dead men and women in the streets, their bodies blackening in the growing firestorm.
The murderer knifed Nims during the firestorm and exited the shelter after the firestorm.
Nor could I have affected some Russki decision to kill Hamilton AFB and Alameda with low airbursts, which started vast firestorms but scooped up relatively little debris to add to their fallout plumes.
She felt as if she were caught in a firestorm and that the purest, smoothest part of her was being pitted.
Widespread use of dirigible bombers, firestorms and poison-gas bombardments.
Mission, Circuit Completed, Firestorm, Flashpoint, Timewarp, Crackup, Blackout!
And the ash was burned life, trees and mammals and divergent species of dinosaurs from America and China and Australia and Antarctica, burned to cinders by the global firestorms and then burned again in the pulse of superheat, now mingled together in the choked stratosphere.
We will be buried here, safe while the firestorms rage and the nuclear winter closes its grip.
I liked to think of huge buildings toppling, of firestorms, of bridges collapsing, survivors roaming the charred countryside.
Maybe that whole fuckin' playground would erupt in a beautiful red firestorm.
The one-man army was striding along their flank with the M-2O3 at full bellow, roaring out angry little chunks of high explosives in forty-millimetre packages, bringing daylight to the night and final darkness to those who tarried too long in the midst of the firestorm.
Stitched by lightning and seared by firestorms, the province of Elysia underwent its second Changeover in a matter of hours.
Israeli armored columns behind heavy tactical-artillery saturation push into Syria all the way to Abu Kenal in twelve hours: Damascus has firestorms.
Below banks of panicked clouds, smoke chimneyed from immolated cities and billowed from tracts of firestormed evergreen forests.