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thunder

UK /ˈθʌndə/US /ˈθʌndɚ/

noun 5
verb 5
forms 6
phrases 2

noun5

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the loud rolling or cracking sound that lightning makes in a storm
- Thunder is preceded by lightning.
- Thunder cracked overhead.
•
A deep, rumbling noise resembling thunder.
- Off in the distance, he heard the thunder of hoofbeats, signalling a stampede.
•
An alarming or startling threat or denunciation.
- The thunders of the Vatican could no longer strike into the heart of princes. — 1847
•
Synonym of thunder word.
- Adam's fall and Vico's thunder are embodied in a word of a hundred letters, the first of ten thunders in the Wake. — 1996
•
(no longer used) The discharge of electricity; a thunderbolt.
- The revenging gods / 'Gainst parricides did all their thunders bend. — 1603

verb5

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To produce thunder; to sound, rattle, or roar, as a discharge of atmospheric electricity.
- It thundered continuously.
•
To make a noise like thunder.
- The train thundered along the tracks.
•
To say (something) with a loud, threatening voice.
- "Get back to work at once!", he thundered.
•
To (make something) move very fast (with loud noise).
- Senseless years thunder by / Millions are willing to give their lives for you / Does nothing live on? — 1983
To produce something with incredible power.

forms

thundered · thunderedst · thundering · thundereth · thunders · thunderest

Phrases with thunder

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