- firestorm - a storm in which violent winds are drawn into the column of hot air rising over a severely bombed area
--1 is a kind of storm, violent storm
- firestorm - an outburst of controversy; "the incident triggered a political firestorm"
--2 is a kind of controversy, contention, contestation, disputation, disceptation, tilt, argument, arguing
- firestorm - an outburst of controversy; "the incident triggered a political firestorm"