TORNADOES Synonyms
There is 0 hypernym of the word tornadoes. (close relations)
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cyclones | nounn | |||||||
noun • (meteorology) rapid inward circulation of air masses about a low pressure center; circling counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the southern • a violent rotating windstorm | ||||||||
tempests | nounn | |||||||
noun • a violent commotion or disturbance • (literary) a violent wind | ||||||||
twirlers | nounn | |||||||
noun • someone who twirls a baton • (baseball) the person who does the pitching | ||||||||
twisters | nounn | |||||||
noun • a localized and violently destructive windstorm occurring over land characterized by a funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground • small friedcake formed into twisted strips and fried; richer than doughnuts | ||||||||
vortices | nounn | |||||||
noun • A whirlwind, whirlpool, or similarly moving matter in the form of a spiral or column. • Anything that involves constant violent or chaotic activity around some centre. • Anything that inevitably draws surrounding things into its current. • A supposed collection of particles of very subtle matter, endowed with a rapid rotary motion around an axis which was also the axis of a sun or planet; part of a Cartesian theory accounting for the formation of the universe, and the movements of the bodies composing it. • Any of numerous species of small Turbellaria belonging to Vortex and allied genera. | ||||||||
whirlings | nounn | |||||||
noun • the act of rotating in a circle or spiral | ||||||||
whirlwinds | nounn | |||||||
noun • a more or less vertical column of air whirling around itself as it moves over the surface of the Earth | ||||||||
twister | nounn | |||||||
noun • a localized and violently destructive windstorm occurring over land characterized by a funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground • small friedcake formed into twisted strips and fried; richer than doughnuts |