The sky was already looking grim when we set sail. Within an hour, the first squall had hit us.
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Squall
//ˈskwɔːl//
Synonyms for "squall" (185 found)
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7 entriesTranslations
61 translations across 28 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- καταιγίς noun (sudden storm, as found in a squall line)
Bulgarian
3 entries- шквал noun (sudden storm, as found in a squall line)
- пищя verb (to cry or wail loudly)
- рева verb (to cry or wail loudly)
Catalan
1 entries- tamborinada noun (sudden storm, as found in a squall line)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 颮 /飑 noun (sudden storm, as found in a squall line)
Czech
1 entries- húlava noun (sudden storm, as found in a squall line)
Dutch
3 entries- windstoot noun (sudden storm, as found in a squall line)
- krijsen verb (to cry or wail loudly)
- schreeuwen verb (to cry or wail loudly)
Esperanto
1 entries- burasko noun (sudden storm, as found in a squall line)
Finnish
4 entries- kuuropuuska noun (sudden storm, as found in a squall line)
- tuulenpuuska noun (sudden storm, as found in a squall line)
- ukkoskuuro noun (sudden storm, as found in a squall line)
- parkua verb (to cry or wail loudly)
French
4 entries- bourrasque noun (sudden storm, as found in a squall line)
- grain noun (sudden storm, as found in a squall line)
- brailler verb (to cry or wail loudly)
- hurler verb (to cry or wail loudly)
Georgian
2 entries- ქარბუქი noun (sudden storm, as found in a squall line)
- შკვალი noun (sudden storm, as found in a squall line)
German
2 entries- Böe noun (sudden storm, as found in a squall line)
- Sturmböe noun (sudden storm, as found in a squall line)
Greek
1 entries- ριπαίος άνεμος noun (sudden storm, as found in a squall line)
Icelandic
1 entries- él noun (sudden storm, as found in a squall line)
Indonesian
1 entries- sendalu noun (sudden storm, as found in a squall line)
Irish
1 entries- osóg noun (sudden storm, as found in a squall line)
Italian
4 entries- bufera noun (sudden storm, as found in a squall line)
- burrasca noun (sudden storm, as found in a squall line)
- gridare verb (to cry or wail loudly)
- schiamazzare verb (to cry or wail loudly)
Lithuanian
2 entries- umaras noun (sudden storm, as found in a squall line)
- škvalas noun (sudden storm, as found in a squall line)
Macedonian
3 entries- цимоли verb (to cry or wail loudly)
- цмиздри verb (to cry or wail loudly)
- црка verb (to cry or wail loudly)
Māori
4 entries- māwake rangitahi noun (sudden storm, as found in a squall line)
- pōkākā noun (sudden storm, as found in a squall line)
- pōua noun (sudden storm, as found in a squall line)
- rorohū noun (sudden storm, as found in a squall line)
Navajo
1 entries- ayéhé néidíníyódí noun (sudden storm, as found in a squall line)
Norman
1 entries- piailli verb (to cry or wail loudly)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- بورا noun (sudden storm, as found in a squall line)
Pashto
1 entries- سيلۍ verb (to cry or wail loudly)
Polish
1 entries- szkwał noun (sudden storm, as found in a squall line)
Russian
3 entries- шквал noun (sudden storm, as found in a squall line)
- визжа́ть verb (to cry or wail loudly)
- вопить verb (to cry or wail loudly)
Samogitian
2 entries- bongs noun (sudden storm, as found in a squall line)
- bongts noun (sudden storm, as found in a squall line)
Spanish
3 entries- borrasca noun (sudden storm, as found in a squall line)
- tormenta noun (sudden storm, as found in a squall line)
- chillar verb (to cry or wail loudly)
Swedish
4 entries- kastby noun (sudden storm, as found in a squall line)
- stormby noun (sudden storm, as found in a squall line)
- skrika verb (to cry or wail loudly)
- skråla verb (to cry or wail loudly)
Sample sentences
16 total sentences available.
There, ministering justice, she presides, / and deals the law, and from her throne of state, / as choice determines or as chance decides, / to each, in equal share, his separate task divides. / Sudden, behold a concourse. Looking down, / his late-lost friends AEneas sees again, / Segestus, brave Cloanthus of renown, / Antheus and others of the Trojan train, / whom the black squall had scattered o'er the main, / and driven afar upon an alien strand.
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Squalling was the word for it, Pew's anger rose so high at these objections; till at last, his passion completely taking the upper hand, he struck at them right and left in his blindness, and his stick sounded heavily on more than one.
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Squalling like an infuriated cat, the shadow crashed down
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