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simoom
/ sɪˈmuːm; sɪˈmuːn /
noun
- a strong suffocating sand-laden wind of the deserts of Arabia and North Africa Also calledsamiel
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Origin of simoom1
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Example Sentences
Besides, the wind called the simoom raised such clouds of dust that whole caravans were sometimes buried in the sand.
In the choking breath of the simoom he feels the potentialities of God, and his own helpless impotence.
That wind of the desert, says Bonazzi, that simoom of Pontifical dominion did not pass over our city in vain.
Cooley stayed there until five o'clock in the afternoon waiting for the simoom to swoop down upon him.
On another occasion we met the simoom, the purple haze in rushing past threatening suffocation.
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