Definitions for Firestorm
firestorm

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1. firestormnoun

   a storm in which violent winds are drawn into the column of hot air rising over a severely bombed area

2. firestormnoun

   an outburst of controversy

   "the incident triggered a political firestorm"

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1. firestormnoun

   A fire whose intensity is greatly increased by inrushing winds.

2. firestormnoun

   An intense or violent response.

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1. Firestorm

   A firestorm is a conflagration which attains such intensity that it creates and sustains its own wind system. It is most commonly a natural phenomenon, created during some of the largest bushfires and wildfires. Although the term has been used to describe certain large fires, the phenomenon's determining characteristic is a fire with its own storm-force winds from every point of the compass towards the storm's center, where the air is heated and then ascends.The Black Saturday bushfires and the Great Peshtigo Fire are possible examples of forest fires with some portion of combustion due to a firestorm, as is the Great Hinckley Fire. Firestorms have also occurred in cities, usually due to targeted explosives, such as in the aerial firebombings of London, Hamburg, Dresden, and Tokyo, and the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.

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1. firestorm

   A firestorm is a fire of great intensity and power that causes a fast-moving, highly destructive, often uncontrollable blaze. It typically occurs during urban or forest fires, creating and sustaining its own wind system, and is characterized by strong, gusty winds from all directions converging to feed in oxygen causing the fire to dramatically increase in intensity. The severity and magnitude of the fire are such that it can create its own weather pattern, including tornadoes made of fire or embers. Usually, firestorms of significant scale are caused by multiple fires converging and merging into one fire front.

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1. Firestorm

   A firestorm is a conflagration which attains such intensity that it creates and sustains its own wind system. It is most commonly a natural phenomenon, created during some of the largest bushfires and wildfires. The Black Saturday bushfires, the Great Peshtigo Fire and the Ash Wednesday fires are examples of firestorms, as is that following the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. Firestorms can also be deliberate effects of targeted explosives such as occurred as a result of the aerial bombings of Hamburg, Dresden, and the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.

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1. reformist

How to pronounce Firestorm?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Firestorm in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Firestorm in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of Firestorm in a Sentence

1. Josh Listers:

   After the fact, we got a few pictures.... from friends, but it was a firestorm when we left.

2. Steve Fitzgerald:

   So Planned Parenthood is busy out their waging war against the next generation and winning, planned Parenthood was a firestorm. I got calls from everywhere,' How dare you ? How could you ? How could you compare it to Dachau ?'.

3. Eliot Cohen:

   You immediately walk into a firestorm of things that you have to take care of.

4. David Makovsky:

   There’s no doubt that this approach will lead to a firestorm between these two governments if they go forward.

5. Craig Reedie:

   It’s been a little bit of a firestorm ; I think the World Anti-Doping Agency has been pretty clear in its views that the allegations were based on data that was questionable from a scientific and a legal point of view, our scientists and experts have already started working down in Monaco and we await the results of those investigations with interest.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Firestorm
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Firestorm
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firestorm
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Firestorm