to bluster
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6.0
- verb
- /ˈblʌstər/
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azotar
- In the blustering wind, the fronds of the palm trees rattled like old bones.
- a blustering wind
Examples
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Eventually, there will be a crisis of such magnitude that the political winds change direction and become blustering gales forcing us onto the course of fiscal sustainability.
Blog text (6) -
In brief: "Eventually, there will be a crisis of such magnitude that the political winds change direction and become blustering gales forcing us onto the course of fiscal sustainability."
Blog text (6) -
White sheets twist around her like ghosts in the blustering wind.
Fiction book (1995) -
Outside the wind whistled and blustered.
Fiction book (1993) -
Midnight blustered cold outside the cold, exposed windowpane.
Fiction book (1999) -
The day was blustering; shadows sprang across the mattress as the sun found a break, then vanished.
Fiction book (1997) -
In the first few days of our response, over 1,800 volunteers helped nearly 150 homeowners still reeling from Sandy and a nor'easter that blustered into New York and New Jersey with rain and wet snow a little over a week later.
Blog text (23) -
Late one evening, during a snowstorm, when the streets were empty and blocked with snowdrifts and the wind blustered in chimneys, drawing stove flames upward, there was a knock at the door.
Fiction book (1996) -
If there had been a time he could have turned back, Yuri said to himself, wedged in behind Gracja, among pines, among rocks, and nursing his little fire into a dawn spitting and blustering with snow.
Fiction book (1992) -
The wind began to bluster violently, shaking the branches of the trees.
Synonyms
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3.2
To blow in sudden strong bursts of wind
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8.8
To make a puffing sound like a steam train or breathing hard
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6.0
Strong wind that blows in sudden loud gusts
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Etymology
The verb bluster also keeps the original meaning of 'to blow' violently and loudly, so when weather or wind blusters it makes a lot of noise and gusts strongly, like windows rattling during a storm.