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simoom

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6 lettersPronunciation /sɪˈmuːm/Part of speech nounSorted immoosStarts with SEnds with M0 clues
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Definitions

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

Word origin

From Arabic سَمُوم (samūm, “hot wind”), from سَمَّ (samma, “to poison”).

Used in a sentence

  • The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. Whirling wreaths and columns of burning wind, rushed around and over them.
  • Stephen's heart had withered up like a flower of the desert that feels the simoom coming from afar.

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