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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

  • (..) Then live, Macduff. What need I fear of thee? But yet I'll make assurance double sure and take a bond of fate: thou shalt not live. (RUMBLE OF THUNDER) Saw you the Weird Sisters? No, my Lord. Came they not by you? No, indeed, my Lord. Infected be the air whereon they ride (..)
    2015 Macbeth
  • (..) In thunder, lightning, or in rain? When the hurly-burly's done. When the battle's lost and won. Where the place? Upon the battlefield, there to meet with Macbeth. (..)
    2015 Macbeth