Mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are a tempest and hailstorm.
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Tempest
//ˈtɛm.pəst//
Synonyms for "tempest" (75 found)
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Closest matches (15)
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Related words (37)
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53 translations across 31 languages.
Belarusian
1 entries- бу́ра noun (storm)
Bulgarian
3 entries- бу́ря noun (storm)
- бушувам verb (To storm)
- бушувам verb (To disturb, as by a tempest)
Catalan
2 entries- tempesta noun (storm)
- tempestejar verb (To storm)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 暴風雨 /暴风雨 noun (storm)
Czech
1 entries- bouře noun (storm)
Dutch
1 entries- storm noun (storm)
Finnish
2 entries- myrsky noun (storm)
- rajuilma noun (storm)
French
1 entries- tempête noun (storm)
German
1 entries- Sturm noun (storm)
Greek
1 entries- καταιγίδα noun (storm)
Hindi
1 entries- आँधी noun (storm)
Hungarian
1 entries- vihar noun (storm)
Italian
2 entries- procella noun (storm)
- tempesta noun (storm)
Japanese
4 entries- 嵐 noun (storm)
- 暴風雨 noun (storm)
- 荒れ noun (storm)
- 風雨 noun (storm)
Korean
1 entries- 폭풍 noun (storm)
Latin
2 entries- procella noun (storm)
- tempestas noun (storm)
Macedonian
1 entries- бура noun (storm)
Māori
4 entries- heihei noun (any violent tumult or commotion)
- paraawa noun (storm)
- pārerarera noun (storm)
- taupoki noun (storm)
Occitan
1 entries- tempèsta noun (storm)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- بورا noun (storm)
Polish
1 entries- burza noun (storm)
Portuguese
2 entries- tempestade noun (storm)
- tempestade noun (any violent tumult or commotion)
Romanian
1 entries- furtună noun (storm)
Russian
3 entries- бу́ря noun (storm)
- бу́ря noun (any violent tumult or commotion)
- бушева́ть verb (To storm)
Serbo-Croatian
3 entries- nepogoda noun (any violent tumult or commotion)
- oluja noun (storm)
- олуја noun (storm)
Spanish
3 entries- tempestad noun (storm)
- temporal noun (storm)
- tempestear verb (To storm)
Swahili
1 entries- dhoruba noun (storm)
Thai
1 entries- พายุ noun (storm)
Ukrainian
1 entries- бу́ря noun (storm)
Walloon
2 entries- timpesse noun (storm)
- timpesse noun (any violent tumult or commotion)
Welsh
1 entries- tymestl noun (storm)
Sample sentences
16 total sentences available.
It's a tempest in a teapot.
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Here AEolus within a dungeon vast / the sounding tempest and the struggling blast / bends to his sway and bridles them with chains.
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So, when the tempest bursting wakes the war, / the justling winds in conflict rave and roar, / South, West and East upon his orient car, / the lashed woods howl, and with his trident hoar / Nereus in foam upheaves the watery floor.
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