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Meanings of simoom in English

Catalan
simun
Spanish
simún

A violent hot sand-laden wind on the deserts of Arabia and North Africa.

        simun
        Usage of simoom in English
        1
        As Sulamith comes upon the scene a simoom sweeps across the desert.
        The Standard Operas: Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Compose...
        2
        She is the simoom of the desert and the chilly blast which destroys.
        The God-Idea of the Ancients; Or, Sex in Religion
        3
        The palm bends before the blast as the simoom sweeps by.
        The Standard Operas: Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Compose...
        4
        This great domain of the simoom has every diversity of surface.
        Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania
        5
        This news was answered by a simoom of rage from Salzburg.
        The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 1
        6
        The air was rent with silk and brass; a simoom of rapture raced over Zoe.
        Star-Dust: A Story of an American Girl
        7
        On another occasion we met the simoom, the purple haze in rushing past threatening suffocation.
        The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure
        8
        Perhaps in a simoom it may look more awful.
        Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo
        9
        His description of the simoom parched up my entrails.
        The Pacha of Many Tales
        10
        Singly we are sand-grains, together we are the simoom.
        Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People
        11
        Perhaps the full blast of the simoom may last an hour-perhaps two or even three hours.
        Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania
        12
        It is a simoom, a kamsin, fatal, irresistible.
        Tancred; Or, The New Crusade
        13
        This was soon after; and along with the morning light had come the cessation of the simoom.
        The Boy Slaves
        14
        A simoom of sorrow whose pestilent breath
        Oklahoma and Other Poems
        15
        Stephen's heart had withered up like a flower of the desert that feels the simoom coming from afar.
        A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
        16
        After that she could be irritated but she could not be depressed by Aunt Bessie's simoom of questioning.
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        Catalan
        simun
        Spanish
        simún
        Simoom through the time