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supertempest en · NOUN

Etymology

From super- + tempest.

Meanings

1. (rare) A very severe tempest.
   • There would still be tough times ahead for the Fanshawes. But Cape Talisman's supertempest had had a silver lining tucked away after all. 1907, Jonathan Stagge, The Scarlet Circle, Crime Clud, page 218:
   • A standard Venus supertempest was on when we got there. 1969, George P. Elliott, An Hour of Last Things and Other Stories, Gollancz, →ISBN, page 121:
   • We moved to this barrier island with our eyes open. The bad news was that it lies smack in the storm belt where a hurricane can be expected every four to five years and a supertempest takes aim ever televe years or so. 2004, Life on Matagorda Island, Texas A & M University Press, →ISBN, page 19:

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