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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



... in a gentle voice some few notes like the murmuring of a bee in early spring, or a bashful bride's first loving speech to her husband. Then suddenly she produced from that insignificant tambourine, as though with the fingers of a powerful musician, sounds like the crashing of the clouds in thunder, making the frames of her hearers shrink within them as she sang in tones more melodious than those of ...
— The Poison Tree - A Tale of Hindu Life in Bengal • Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
... its screaming flight. On the tops of these are huge stones thrown transverse, as if an earthquake had tossed them there, and behind these is a fretwork of perpendicular rocks, something like the 'Giant's Causeway'. A thunder-storm came on while we were at the inn, and Coleridge was running out bareheaded to enjoy the commotion of the elements in the 'Valley of Rocks', but as if in spite, the clouds only muttered a few angry sounds, and ...
— English Critical Essays - Nineteenth Century • Various
... have not asked my advice. I don't suppose you want it, but if you do, here it is. If you love the girl and she is respectable, marry her if she is poor as poverty and the daughter of a tinker; but if you don't love her, and she's rich as a nabob, for thunder's sake ...
— Family Pride - Or, Purified by Suffering • Mary J. Holmes
... quickly. Clouds of dust swirled around us; we had to turn our backs and cover our eyes with our hands, for the dust blinded us. There was a streak of lightning across the sky, then came a heavy clap of thunder. ...
— Nobody's Boy - Sans Famille • Hector Malot
... remained there; but we camped near the First Mesa. It was planting time and the Walpi celebrated their rain-feast but they brought only a mere misty drizzle. Then we celebrated our rain-feast and planted. Great rains and thunder and lightning immediately followed and on the first day after planting our corn was half an arm's length high; on the fourth day it was its full height, and in one moon it was ripe. When we were going up to the village (Walpi was then north of the gap, probably), we were ...
— A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola • Victor Mindeleff and Cosmos Mindeleff


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