: a storm or system of winds that rotates about a center of low atmospheric pressure, advances at a speed of 20 to 30 miles (about 30 to 50 kilometers) an hour, and often brings heavy rain
There were other problems: a cyclone struck the structure just one week before opening, damaging beyond repair a freshwater pool that was part of the complex. Jacopo Prisco, CNN, 22 Aug. 2022 The neighborhood next to Honiara’s hospital looks like a cyclone hit it. Michael E. Miller, Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2022 Marra suspected a different culprit: a cyclone was passing through the area, whipping up waves. Jeffrey Marlow, The New Yorker, 26 July 2022 The good weather is likely to deteriorate later in the week, as a cyclone off the coast of India is expected to blow inland. Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 9 May 2022 Heat is not the only culprit: in 2017, Vietnam had to close more than 325 schools in four provinces for nine days after a cyclone, and in 2015, a typhoon in the Philippines shuttered 803 schools for two weeks. Ciara Nugent, Time, 6 May 2022 Extreme storms like the massive bomb cyclone that drenched the San Francisco Bay Area last October are likely to become more powerful in the coming decades as climate change alters atmospheric conditions. Julie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Apr. 2022 The author rises and steps back to evade him, but his black suit and polished shoes are unprepared for the youth in trainers, head wrapped like a ninja, a cyclone of anonymous fury. Lydia Strohl, CNN, 13 Aug. 2022 Exit West was a symphony of skill and technical virtuosity about portal-hopping lovers caught in the cyclone of displacement, the kind of game-winning Michael Jordan performance readers live for.Wired, 10 Aug. 2022 See More
Word History
Etymology
Noun
modification of Greek kyklōma wheel, coil, from kykloun to go around, from kyklos circle
ADJECTIVE | CYCLONE + VERB | PREPOSITION | PHRASESADJECTIVE➤tropical熱帶氣旋CYCLONE + VERB➤hit sth旋風襲擊⋯◇Cyclone Tracy hit Darwin on Christmas Eve, 1974.1974 年平安夜,熱帶氣旋特雷西襲擊了達爾文。➤destroy sth, devastate sth旋風破壞/摧毀⋯◇The islands have been devastated by cyclones in recent months.近幾個月的旋風摧毀了這些島嶼。PREPOSITION➤in a/the cyclone在旋風中◇trees damaged in the cyclone遭到旋風破壞的樹木PHRASES➤the eye of the cyclone (= the central point)旋風眼