firestorm

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A fire whose intensity is greatly increased by inrushing winds.
  2. An intense or violent altercation; an intense or violent response; an outburst (as of controversy) figuratively
    — In the print firestorm that followed the publication of the royal couple's letters, the generalissima was one polemical touchstone. The Annotations to The Kings Cabinet Opened itself depicted the queen as an enemy to king and country: […]

词形变化

firestorms plural fire storm alternative fire-storm alternative

词汇关系

近义词
conflagration

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *péh₂wr̥
Proto-Germanic *fōr
Proto-West Germanic *fuir
Old English fȳr
Middle English fyr
English fire
English storm
English firestorm
From fire + storm.
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