English to Afrikaans Meaning of hurricane - orkaan

Hurricane :

orkaan

noun

orkaan, ontploffing, reënstorm

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Definitions of hurricane in English

Noun(1) a severe tropical cyclone usually with heavy rains and winds moving at 63-136 knots (12 on the Beaufort scale

Examples of hurricane in English

(1) There is chaos around you, caused by a hurricane and severe floods.(2) The hurricane has claimed 65 lives with winds gusting up to 155 mph but Jamaica missed the worst of it.(3) The main post office here in New Orleans flooded right after the hurricane .(4) Tonight so many victims of the hurricane and the flood are far from home and friends and familiar things.(5) Planned as temporary refuge from the hurricane and flood waters, they became sites of official neglect.(6) The strongest part of a hurricane is the eye wall, on the edge of the calm center.(7) There was little structural damage, but the hurricane downed trees and blew roofs off of some bungalows.(8) The hurricane caused a surge of water that flooded large areas of the historic city center.(9) With a hurricane and a tropical storm moving in, the State of Florida is bracing for a beating.(10) The last big storm here was in 1993, and it wasn't even a hurricane or a tropical storm.(11) About 1,100 oil platforms were exposed to the full force of the hurricane .(12) Thousands of people displaced by the hurricane are forced to find new homes in new cities and states.(13) The season is barely two full days old and we've already had nine advisories, although as yet no tropical storms or hurricanes .(14) This book shows the tracks of all the hurricanes and tropical storms recorded over more than a century.(15) Gray expects at least three named tropical storms and two hurricanes this month.(16) First, wind and water erode it, especially during tropical storms and hurricanes .

Related Phrases of hurricane

(1) hurricane lamp ::

orkaan lamp

Related Phrases of hurricane

(1) hurricane lamp ::

orkaan lamp

Synonyms

1. hurricane ::

orkaan

2. blast ::

ontploffing

3. rainstorm ::

reënstorm

4. storm ::

storm

Different Forms

hurricane, hurricanes

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