Thesaurus: thunder
The sound which follows a flash of lightning; the report of a discharge of atmospheric electricity.
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Definitions
- n. The sound which follows a flash of lightning; the report of a discharge of atmospheric electricity.
- n. The discharge of electricity; a thunderbolt.
- n. Any loud noise; as, the thunder of cannon.
- n. An alarming or statrling threat or denunciation.
- n. To produce thunder; to sound, rattle, or roar, as a discharge of atmospheric electricity; -- often used impersonally; as, it thundered continuously.
- n. Fig.: To make a loud noise; esp. a heavy sound, of some continuance.
- n. To utter violent denunciation.
- v. t. To emit with noise and terror; to utter vehemently; to publish, as a threat or denunciation.
- n. a deep prolonged loud noise
- n. a booming or crashing noise caused by air expanding along the path of a bolt of lightning
- n. street names for heroin
- v. move fast, noisily, and heavily