take by storm

Language: en

Meaning: (transitive,military)Tocaptureby means of asudden,overwhelmingattack.The soldierstookthe castleby storm.; (transitive,idiomatic)Toseize,overpower, orcaptivatein a sudden and forceful manner.1841,Charles Dickens, chapter 71, inBarnaby Rudge:[A] startling interruption occurred at that moment, whichtooktheir whole attentionby storm.1847,Charlotte Brontë, chapter 33, inJane Eyre:How I looked while these ideas weretakingmy spiritby storm, I cannot tell.; (transitive,idiomatic)To rapidly gain greatpopularityin (a place).1908February 19,Jack London, chapter 1, inThe Iron Heel, New York, N.Y.:The Macmillan Company; London:Macmillan & Co.,→OCLC:This obscure reference ["Blind Tom"] applies to a blind negro musician whotookthe worldby stormin the latter half of the nineteenth century.1969, Arnold Shaw,The Rock Revolution, page 1:BeatlemaniatookEngland and Europeby stormand proceeded to inundate American teenagers.

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