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Thunder
/ˈθʌndə/
The loud rumbling, cracking, or crashing sound caused by expansion of rapidly heated air around a lightning bolt.
📖 Definitions of "Thunder"
- 1
The loud rumbling, cracking, or crashing sound caused by expansion of rapidly heated air around a lightning bolt.
"Thunder is preceded by lightning."
- 2
A deep, rumbling noise resembling thunder.
"Off in the distance, he heard the thunder of hoofbeats, signalling a stampede."
- 3
An alarming or startling threat or denunciation.
- 4
The discharge of electricity; a thunderbolt.
- 1
To produce thunder; to sound, rattle, or roar, as a discharge of atmospheric electricity; often used impersonally.
"It thundered continuously."
- 2
To make a noise like thunder.
"The train thundered along the tracks."
- 3
To talk with a loud, threatening voice.
- 4
To say (something) with a loud, threatening voice.
""Get back to work at once!", he thundered."
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