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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A hellish onslaught.

   "They marched up through the open field under the hellstorm of shells and bullets from the Spanish."

Example

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"They marched up through the open field under the hellstorm of shells and bullets from the Spanish."

Etymology

From hell + storm.

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