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Thunder   /θˈəndər/   Listen
Thunder

noun
1.
A deep prolonged loud noise.  Synonyms: boom, roar, roaring.
2.
A booming or crashing noise caused by air expanding along the path of a bolt of lightning.
3.
Street names for heroin.  Synonyms: big H, hell dust, nose drops, scag, skag, smack.
verb
(past & past part. thundered; pres. part. thundering)
1.
Move fast, noisily, and heavily.
2.
Utter words loudly and forcefully.  Synonym: roar.
3.
Be the case that thunder is being heard.  Synonym: boom.
4.
To make or produce a loud noise.  "The engine roared as the driver pushed the car to full throttle"



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"Thunder" Quotes from Famous Books



... pale was his visage, and thick came his breath; The garb, alas! why did he touch? How sick grew his soul as the garment of death The skeleton caught in his clutch— The moon disappeared, and the skies changed to dun, And louder than thunder the church-bell tolled one— The ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 20, No. - 582, Saturday, December 22, 1832 • Various
... looking anxiously out of the window, as if he feared some thunder-storm would suddenly shut out the clear light of this beautiful morning. "I don't know—perhaps I may be back before—but at any rate we meet at ...
— Macleod of Dare • William Black
... was about to return to the Anchorage, a furious thunder-storm burst upon the land, accompanied by a torrent of rain. It continued so long that the Royals were able to induce their ...
— Rod of the Lone Patrol • H. A. Cody
... affirm That did your times as do your lines agree, He might be thought to have translated thee, But that he's darker, not so strong; wherein Thy greater art more clearly may be seen, Which does thy Persius' cloudy storms display With lightning and with thunder; both which lay Couched perchance in him, but wanted force To break, or light from darkness to divorce, Till thine exhaled skill compressed it so, That forced the clouds to break, the light to show, The thunder to be heard. That now each child Can prattle what was meant; ...
— Early Theories of Translation • Flora Ross Amos
... of the matter. He then touched briefly and hastily upon the prominent events of the Revolution. The thunder-storm of war had now rolled southward, and did not again burst upon Massachusetts, where its first fury had been felt. But she contributed her full share to the success of the contest. Wherever a battle was fought—whether at Long ...
— True Stories from History and Biography • Nathaniel Hawthorne


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