storming

CIDE DICTIONARY

storming, a. & n. 

 a. & n. from Storm, v.  [1913 Webster]

Storming party (Mil.), a party assigned to the duty of making the first assault in storming a fortress.

THESAURUS

storming

abandoned, amok, anarchic, angry, bellowing, berserk, blustering, blusterous, blustery, boisterous, bullying, carried away, chaotic, cloudy, cyclonic, delirious, demoniac, dirty, distracted, ecstatic, enraged, enraptured, feral, ferocious, fierce, fighting mad, foul, frantic, frenzied, fulminating, fuming, furious, haggard, hectoring, hellish, hog-wild, hopping mad, howling, hysterical, in a rage, in a transport, in hysterics, infuriate, infuriated, insensate, intoxicated, mad, madding, maniac, mindless, noisy, orgasmic, orgastic, orgiastic, pandemoniac, possessed, rabid, raging, rainy, ramping, ranting, ravening, raving, raving mad, ravished, rip-roaring, roaring, roaring mad, roistering, roisterous, rollicking, running mad, savage, storm, stormy, swaggering, swashbuckling, swashing, taking by storm, tempestuous, tornadic, transported, troublous, tumultuous, turbulent, typhonic, typhoonish, uncontrollable, uproarious, violent, wild, wild-eyed, wild-looking

ROGET THESAURUS

storming

Attack

N attack, assault, assault and battery, onset, onslaught, charge, aggression, offense, incursion, inroad, invasion, irruption, outbreak, estrapade, ruade, coupe de main, sally, sortie, camisade, raid, foray, run at, run against, dead set at, storm, storming, boarding, escalade, siege, investment, obsession, bombardment, cannonade, fire, volley, platoon fire, file fire, fusillade, sharpshooting, broadside, raking fire, cross fire, volley of grapeshot, whiff of the grape, feu d'enfer, cut, thrust, lunge, pass, passado, carte and tierce, home thrust, coupe de bec, kick, punch, battue, razzia, Jacquerie, dragonnade, devastation, eboulement, assailant, aggressor, invader, base of operations, point of attack, echelon, attacking, aggressive, offensive, obsidional, up in arms, on the offensive, Int, up and at them!, the din of arms, the yell of savage rage, the shriek of agony, the groan of death, their fatal hands no second stroke intend, thirst for glory quells the love of life.