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thunder

Definition

  • noun: the very loud sound that comes from the sky during a storm
  • noun: the sound that follows a flash of lightning and is caused by sudden expansion of the air in the path of the electrical discharge
  • verb: to produce thunder
  • usually used impersonally
  • synonyms: thunderbolt, shout

Examples

  • I didn't mean to 'steal your thunder', but I just had to tell your mom about your promotion.

  • We could hear the rumble of 'thunder' in the distance.

  • “How dare you come into my house!” he 'thundered'.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) But as we often see before a storm a silence in the heavens... The clouds stand still, the bold winds speechless and the orb below as hush as death... Anon the dreadful thunder doth rend the region So after Pyrrhus' pause a mused vengeance set him new a-work (..)
    2015 Hamlet