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/θˈəndərstrˌək/ Listen

verb

Thunderstrike v. t. (past thunderstruck; past part. thunderstruck, thunderstrucken; pres. part. thunderstriking)

To strike, blast, or injure by, or as by, lightning. (R.)

To astonish, or strike dumb, as with something terrible; rarely used except in the past participle. "drove before him, thunderstruck."

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Etymology of 'Thunderstruck'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Thunderstruck" Quotes from Famous Books

... Annie relate, in such a cool, off-hand manner, how she had driven away one of the best husbands that ever lived, I was perfectly thunderstruck. I had feared that something of the kind might happen, but now that it had really come to pass, I hardly knew what to ...

— The Somnambulist and the Detective - The Murderer and the Fortune Teller • Allan Pinkerton

... thunderstruck. "Impossible!" he cried. "Is it for him that the straw has been strewed in ...

— The Count's Millions - Volume 1 (of 2) • Emile Gaboriau

... each other, striking savage blows. Lumley grasped the leader of the other party by the hair, and endeavored to beat him over the head with his revolver butt. Even as he uplifted his hand to strike, the man's beard fell off, and the two fierce combatants paused as though thunderstruck. ...

— Bob Hampton of Placer • Randall Parrish

... from the drawer of her dressing-table something small and shining and examined it carefully. "It looks the same, but is it?" she muttered. "Where did the other come from? I don't understand it in the least. Just the same, Marjorie Dean thinks Miss Smarty Stevens took her pin. She was thunderstruck when she saw that Stevens girl wearing it this morning. She's too much afraid of not telling the truth to deny it in her letter. There's something gone wrong with their friendship, too. I'm sure of it from the way they have been acting. I don't know what it's all about, but I do know that this," ...

— Marjorie Dean High School Freshman • Pauline Lester

... old dog shows good taste. And I had forgotten all about Bennington's having a sister. I was thunderstruck when I met her the other week in New York. I had really ...

— Half a Rogue • Harold MacGrath

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