How do you pronounce brain storm?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˈbɹ̠eɪn stoɹm/.

brain storm

/ˈbɹ̠eɪn stoɹm/

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.48 in modern English

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"He was so puffing and fuming that he had to pull up for breath, and take his hat off to ease the smoking hot pressure of a brainstorm."
"The most honored one has had a brain storm — minor, but there was a second one past midnight."
"Such communication is normally regulated by an appropriate amount of electricity but when the amount is very high (rate of 500 times per second), this results in a brain storm known as epilepsy."
"To expand his mind would exhaust what little strength he still had and ignite the brain storm that had finally passed."
"And where were you when Josh came up with this brain storm?"
"That was when I had it--a virtual brain storm. This whole episode, I could see, was a perfect answer."

From brain + storm. In the sense of "seizure, convulsion, brain activity", from the idea that it is like a storm in the brain. In the sense of "problem-solving idea or session", from the unrelated idea of using the "brain to storm a problem" (see brainstorm).

brain storms (plural) brain storms (present, singular) brain storming (participle, present) brain stormed (participle, past) brain stormed (past)