Sekirov Dictionary

lightning

/ˈlaɪt.nɪŋ/

noun 4
adjective 1
verb 1
forms 3
phrases 5

noun4

•
electricity that shoots across the sky or down to the ground in a storm, making a bright flash
- Although we did not see the lightning, we did hear the thunder.
•
A discharge of this kind.
- The lightning was hot enough to melt the sand.
- That tree was hit by lightning.
•
(figurative) Anything that moves very fast.
- Nobs, though, was lightning by comparison with the slow thinking beast and dodged his opponent's thrust with ease. Then he raced to the rear of the tremendous thing and seized it by the tail. — 1918
(slang, no longer used) Gin.

adjective1

•
Extremely fast or sudden; moving (as if) at the speed of lightning.
- The insurgents then began their lightning advance along the Euphrates in the Sunni heartland toward Baghdad. — 2018

verb1

•
(nonstandard) To produce lightning.
- Or if it thundered and lightninged, Aunt Frances always dropped everything she might be doing and held Elizabeth Ann tightly in her arms until it was all over. — 1916

forms

lightninged · lightninging · lightnings

Phrases with lightning

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