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simoom

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si·moom  (s-mm) also si·moon (-mn)
n.
A strong, hot, sand-laden wind of the Sahara and Arabian deserts: "Stephen's heart had withered up like a flower of the desert that feels the simoom coming from afar" James Joyce. Also called samiel.
[Arabic samm, from samma, to poison, from Aramaic samm, drug, poison; see mm in Semitic roots.]
simoom
Noun
a hot suffocating sand-laden desert wind [Arabic samūm poisonous]
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Noun1.simoomsimoom - a violent hot sand-laden wind on the deserts of Arabia and North Africa
samiel, simoon
air current, current of air, wind - air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure; "trees bent under the fierce winds"; "when there is no wind, row"; "the radioactivity was being swept upwards by the air current and out into the atmosphere"
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So that Monsoons, Pampas, Nor-Westers, Harmattans, Trades; any wind but the Levanter and Simoom, might blow Moby Dick into the devious zig-zag world-circle of the Pequod's circumnavigating wake.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
With it, every thing is possible; without it, I fall back into the dangers and difficulties as well as the natural obstacles that ordinarily attend such an expedition: with it, neither heat, nor torrents, nor tempests, nor the simoom, nor unhealthy climates, nor wild animals, nor savage men, are to be feared
Five Weeks in a Balloon by Verne, Jules View in context
The pastoral slopes of the valley below were cloaked in lustre-leather: the rare watercourses along the road had faded from the waiting eye and ear; it seemed as if the long and dry summer had even invaded the close-set ranks of pines, and had blown a simoom breath through the densest woods, leaving its charred red ashes on every leaf and spray along the tunnelled shade.
Devil's Ford by Harte, Bret View in context
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