entempest

Etymology

From en- + tempest.

entempest means To disturb by, or as if by, a tempest or storm. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 91 out of 100.

Why this word is great

ENTEMPEST — [Verb] To disturb or agitate by, or as if by, a tempest or storm. From the English prefix en- (meaning "to cause to be" or "put into") + tempest (from Old French tempeste, ultimately from Latin tempestas, "storm, weather, season"). Unlike "agitate," which suggests a general stirring, or "perturb," which implies a mental disquiet, to entempest is to impose a specific, meteorological violence upon a state of being. It is the gale that churns a placid lake's bed into a fury of silt and shattered light; the reckless word that scatters a gathering's harmony like leaves before a squall; the grief that arrives not as a guest but as a howling squall, stripping the leaves from every memory. To be entempested is to know the world not as a place, but as a force we are forced to inhabit.

verb

To disturb by, or as if by, a tempest or storm.