firestorm

See also: fire storm

English

Alternative forms

• fire storm, fire-storm

Etymology

fire +‎ storm

Noun

firestorm (plural firestorms)

1. A fire whose intensity is greatly increased by inrushing winds.
2. (figurative) An intense or violent altercation.
   • 2012, Ann Baynes Coiro, Thomas Fulton, Rethinking Historicism from Shakespeare to Milton, page 243:

     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: […]

Synonyms

• conflagration

Translations

Fire intensity greatly increased by winds

• Esperanto: fajroŝtormo
• Finnish: tulimyrsky (fi)
• German: Feuersturm (de) m
• Hungarian: tűzvihar
• Irish: stoirm olldóiteáin f
• Korean: 불바람 (bulbaram)
• Spanish: tormenta ígnea f, conflagración (es) m

Further reading

• firestorm on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• reformist, restiform