Earthstorm
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Earthstorm is a noun meaning (seismology, weather, fantasy) An extremely powerful earthquake; a storm involving earth or rock blowing through the air.
Meaning
(seismology, weather, fantasy) An extremely powerful earthquake; a storm involving earth or rock blowing through the air.
Example Sentences
There is an earthstorm, disks of rock careering skyward, buffeting the train.
This earthquake was an earthstorm. Hills were waves, and houses cast adrift were wrecked on them.
It had come from the west, the shock wave from some almighty earthstorm in lost America, rolling clear across the Atlantic before breaking over Thursday Island. It had smashed down buildings, and sunk the ships whose dead masts could still be seen jutting sadly from the water in the harbor.
Word Forms
- earthstorms
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include earthshock, earthquake, tempest, storm, arkstorm, fire-storm.
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